'Truly blessed': Family break down in traffic, so community helps in the sweetest way
It was a hot summer's day in Alabama when Erica Melton and her husband, Douglas, found their van had broken down.
Typically, it had broke down in a busy intersection.
Erica was flagging down a police officer for assistance but what happened next was totally unexpected.
She explained the whole story in a grateful Facebook post.
"The officers not only pushed our van out of traffic but made sure we were OK," Erica wrote. "Officer Hope stayed with us went and got water other Good Samaritans stopped with water took me to get lunch and we were also blessed us with other gifts. We are truly blessed to have such good people among us to come to our aid when we are in need."
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Erica and Douglas, who is a quadriplegic, went on to thank everyone who helped them that day.
"I want to give a special thanks to the first responding officer, Officer Hope, (PPD) the gentleman that was so giving and encouraging from his church (Glenwood on McQueen Smith), the technician from Brewbaker motor, Hope the service manager at Brewbaker, the tow truck driver, the young lady that stopped with water, Angie the van driver that picked us up and transported us home, and most of all Thank you God for allowing your people to accommodate and demonstrate what we all should be."
The officer who came to their aid, Sgt. Hope spoke to WFSA about why he helped the couple.
"I was on duty. I didn't do anything different than any other Prattville police officer would have done."
The Facebook post has an amazing 20k likes, 4.5k comments and 14k shares.
People were writing comments including, ''this just made my day, there are still great people out there. Thank You for sharing your story'' and ''thank you so so much for sharing this. Nice to see.''
One other person commented that, ''we still have one more people around us sometimes we just forget and other same day have too much going on in their life to care but there is still good.''