I lived within two blocks of the Chautauqua resort in Boulder CO when there was a grass fire one night that nobody really noticed until it started to get dangerously near a thickly forested area. The fire department finally had an announcement on KBOL for people to get up there and help out.
Apparenty it was big enough that more manual help with shovels was needed.
I grabbed a shovel from the landlord's storage area and with the Cavalry Charge echoing in my head, I ran to the fire and helped shovel and beat it out before it got to the trees. The "heroism" was divided between the dozen or so local residents who also kept and bore shovels that night and also charged to the battle.
I will say that was hot, dirty, sweaty, gritty, cough-ey work even at night and it was weird how you'd beat down or shovel over a blaze and a minute later another one would pop up right nearby.
It was good meeting some of the folks of the neighborhood and found out from one that I lived only a half block from George Gamow, the famous physicist, pronounced Gamov. (It wasn't until later I found out about the semifamous Alpher–Bethe–Gamow ("alpha, beta, gamma") physics paper, or αβγ paper.)
So besides bestowing kudos and honors upon me for my one-time glorious volunteer firefighting effort, you may also touch the hem of my robe for living so close to George Gamow, for whom the Gamow Tower at CU was named.
The Right Honorable and Noble Terry, 230RN
REF:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93Gamow_paper