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| US postal worker Cissy Cartwright hailed hero after saving Alabama pensioner trapped in his home for over a week | US postal worker Cissy Cartwright hailed hero after saving Alabama pensioner trapped in his home for over a week |
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| A postal worker from the US state of Alabama has been hailed a hero, after post piling up at a home on her route led her to saving a pensioner who had been trapped for over a week. | |
| Cissy Cartwright, who has worked for the US Postal Service in Hope Hull for two decades, became concerned when she noticed that 66-year-old Tommy Hope hadn’t checked his mailbox for several days, Post Master Sherry Hughes told local broadcasterWSFA. | Cissy Cartwright, who has worked for the US Postal Service in Hope Hull for two decades, became concerned when she noticed that 66-year-old Tommy Hope hadn’t checked his mailbox for several days, Post Master Sherry Hughes told local broadcasterWSFA. |
| After Hope fell and broke his arm and injured his hip, he was forced to slide on his back to drink from a bucket of rainwater, and eat ice, frozen berries and juice from his freezer in order to survive. | After Hope fell and broke his arm and injured his hip, he was forced to slide on his back to drink from a bucket of rainwater, and eat ice, frozen berries and juice from his freezer in order to survive. |
| Cartwright found the pensioner on the floor, where he’d been for ten days. | |
| She told reporters that she was “in shock” but “relieved” that she’d found him. Hope is now recovering in hospital. | She told reporters that she was “in shock” but “relieved” that she’d found him. Hope is now recovering in hospital. |
| “He calls me his hero, and if that's what he wants to say, I'm good with it. But I don't feel like a hero. I was just at the right place at the right time,” she said. | “He calls me his hero, and if that's what he wants to say, I'm good with it. But I don't feel like a hero. I was just at the right place at the right time,” she said. |
| The incident comes after a 75-year-old woman who crashed her car into a ravine survived for three days, despite suffering a fractured back, WFAA reported. | The incident comes after a 75-year-old woman who crashed her car into a ravine survived for three days, despite suffering a fractured back, WFAA reported. |
| Wanda Mobley told the local broadcaster that she sustained herself by drinking from a bottle of lemonade. | Wanda Mobley told the local broadcaster that she sustained herself by drinking from a bottle of lemonade. |