Blog Heap of Links for the day 30 May 2014

Going above the call of duty, two San Diego police officers pushed Gilbert Larocque nearly two miles home after his 300-pound motorized scooter broke down on a busy road. … 67-year-old whose legs were injured when he worked as a door gunner in the Army… "You wouldn't expect them to do something like that … push you all the way home…. I appreciate what they did. They went out of their way. How many people would stop?"

“While one of our crews was shopping at Costco, wearing our camouflage shirts to honor the military, they received a 911 call and had to leave their cart of food and run out to the engine. After returning to the store to pay, a military wife paid for the entire cart and left this note. Whoever did this, we are forever grateful and your kind gesture will not be forgotten,” the Vacaville Firefighters Association wrote on Facebook.