An 87-year-old woman who stranded for hours by a taxi company was given a free ride home in a fire engine thanks to San Diego firefighters who noticed she was in distress.
The woman was so grateful for their help that she wanted to thank them in person with a big bag of sweets, so NBC 7 helped make it happen.
“It was a long time I was waiting for that cab. If it wasn’t for you, I’d be there all night," La Jolla resident Sandy Lightman recalled telling San Diego Fire-Rescue Department Captain Jordan Buller on May 10, the night of her "rescue."
Lightman may have needed a fire engine to haul the three dozen cookies and four cheesecakes back to Capt. Buller and the Station 35 crew on Monday.
Lightman said she'd just finished one of her daily trips to a nursing facility where she cares for her husband Lenny, who's living with dementia.