A Hutchinson mail carrier is being hailed as a hero after she helped rescue a woman who fell in her apartment.
Mail Carrier Misty Hernandez was on her route on Thursday when she heard the faint cries of a resident in one of the apartments at the Sentney Lofts at Second Avenue and Popular Street. She explains that it was like any normal day.
“Well, I mean, it's sort of just like any other day, normal, average day. And then I get to the apartment building, go in, I go to the mailboxes, and on, opening and closing them, and they're kind of noisy. They're metal doors so and that's when I heard her say, is anybody there? Well, I thought maybe she was talking on the phone, so I kind of played, you know, just let it go and I'm continuing delivering” said Hernandez.
Hernandez said that she went to the woman’s door and I asked if she was okay.
Hernandez added, “she said, No, I need help. Can you call 911, and I said, Can I come in? And she said, Yes. So luckily, Her door was unlocked, so I went in, and I went around the corner, and she was laying on the floor, and she told me that she fell, and she's been laying there for three days because she didn't have anybody to help her.”
Hernandez said that she didn’t move her, but she gave her some water and placed a pillow under her head to make her comfortable and called 911. She asked her why she didn’t holler.
I asked her about stories of other delivery drivers finding injured people, “Yeah, any, anybody that's out and about, DoorDash drivers, UPS, FedEx, everybody you know. You just never know” Hernandez added.
Hernandez said, “I had started to wonder, because she still had three packages in her box that and she's, she's right by the mailboxes. So I was like starting to wonder, but that was the day that I heard her yelling.”
Hernandez said that at the end of the day she is just proud to be delivering for America every day.