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Original Story
'Hero' mail carrier delivers for woman in need on downtown route
By SANDY CULLEN
Courtney Spaude didn’t have to do anything spectacular to save a life.
It wasn't like the movies, Spaude said, where I rushed in to save someone. The mail carrier was just doing his job and knew it was odd when an elderly woman whose home is on his downtown route didn't unlock her screen door so he could get inside to her mailbox.
"She always has it unlocked," said Spaude, 29, of Jefferson, who has worked the same route for the last year and a half of his eight years delivering mail.
But on March 23, a Monday, the woman's door was locked, and it remained locked the rest of the week. On Thursday, Spaude noted the 84-year-old woman hadn't put out her trash to be collected.
"Even then, I didn't want to be the nosy mailman," he said. "I don't like sticking my nose in people's business or jumping the gun."
Spaude thought the woman might have gone away for the week, but her car was there.
He thought of waiting until Monday. But on Friday, not wanting to find out later that she was there or she died, and not wanting to find out that I could have prevented it by making a phone call, Spaude alerted police.
Madison patrol officers Jean Papalia and Kip Kellogg have responded to many similar calls, which Kellogg said almost always result in finding someone dead.
But this one was different.
After trying unsuccessfully to locate someone who might have information about the woman, the officers called the Madison Fire Department to go into her house.
"They called me 15 to 20 minutes later," he said. "They had found her. She had fallen in front of the door and she wasn't able to get up."
Firefighter Chad Workman, who went in through the window, also expected the worst until he heard the woman call out. "She thought we were breaking in," Workman said. "She said, "Help! Call the police!"
The woman, who was severely dehydrated after four days without food or water, is still recovering from her ordeal.
"I worked for about two days trying to get up," she said in an interview with the State Journal. "I kept yelling for somebody to help me but nobody heard. ... I don’t remember anything the last two days."
The woman, who asked not to be identified because she lives alone and her home has been broken into before, called Spaude "very conscientious" and expressed gratitude to her rescuers. "You can't repay them," she said.
Many elderly residents live alone in their Downtown homes amid the predominantly student population, said Kellogg, who recommends they wear an emergency alert device so they can summon help if needed.
Had Spaude not called police, Kellogg said, the woman would not have survived.
"He is a hero in my book," Papalia said.
Original Story
'Hero' mail carrier delivers for woman in need on downtown route
By SANDY CULLEN
Courtney Spaude didn’t have to do anything spectacular to save a life.
It wasn't like the movies, Spaude said, where I rushed in to save someone. The mail carrier was just doing his job and knew it was odd when an elderly woman whose home is on his downtown route didn't unlock her screen door so he could get inside to her mailbox.
"She always has it unlocked," said Spaude, 29, of Jefferson, who has worked the same route for the last year and a half of his eight years delivering mail.
But on March 23, a Monday, the woman's door was locked, and it remained locked the rest of the week. On Thursday, Spaude noted the 84-year-old woman hadn't put out her trash to be collected.
"Even then, I didn't want to be the nosy mailman," he said. "I don't like sticking my nose in people's business or jumping the gun."
Spaude thought the woman might have gone away for the week, but her car was there.
He thought of waiting until Monday. But on Friday, not wanting to find out later that she was there or she died, and not wanting to find out that I could have prevented it by making a phone call, Spaude alerted police.
Madison patrol officers Jean Papalia and Kip Kellogg have responded to many similar calls, which Kellogg said almost always result in finding someone dead.
But this one was different.
After trying unsuccessfully to locate someone who might have information about the woman, the officers called the Madison Fire Department to go into her house.
"They called me 15 to 20 minutes later," he said. "They had found her. She had fallen in front of the door and she wasn't able to get up."
Firefighter Chad Workman, who went in through the window, also expected the worst until he heard the woman call out. "She thought we were breaking in," Workman said. "She said, "Help! Call the police!"
The woman, who was severely dehydrated after four days without food or water, is still recovering from her ordeal.
"I worked for about two days trying to get up," she said in an interview with the State Journal. "I kept yelling for somebody to help me but nobody heard. ... I don’t remember anything the last two days."
The woman, who asked not to be identified because she lives alone and her home has been broken into before, called Spaude "very conscientious" and expressed gratitude to her rescuers. "You can't repay them," she said.
Many elderly residents live alone in their Downtown homes amid the predominantly student population, said Kellogg, who recommends they wear an emergency alert device so they can summon help if needed.
Had Spaude not called police, Kellogg said, the woman would not have survived.
"He is a hero in my book," Papalia said.