Wyoming postal employee expected to get “Hero Award” for saving sheriff

12/17/18 – The Wyoming County Sheriff is back to work and says he’s doing well after being attacked just about a week ago. He thanked the good samaritans who stopped to help him, crediting them for saving his life.

Behind the hustle and bustle of the busiest mailing day of year there are many holiday heroes.

But one U.S. postal worker is being hailed not just for getting your mail out on time. Jack Harzynski is expected to get the Postmaster General Hero Award for saving a life, and he’s pretty humble about it. “I think I was being more helpful than a hero,” Harzynski told 2 On Your Side’s Emily Lampa.

Harzinski, a 31 year employee with USPS, also works part-time for the Buffalo News as a district manager.

That job put him in the right place, at the right time, early Tuesday morning, December 11.

Driving along state road 238 in Wyoming County, helping a newspaper delivery crew that was short a car, Harzynski came up on what looked like a traffic stop.

“As we slowed down and drove by it,” explains Harzynski, “we looked off to our left on the other side of the road and there were two men wrestling…like fighting in the snow bank.”

The two men were Wyoming County Sheriff Greg Rudolph and 48 year-old Lynn Hall, of Castile. Read more at WGRZ

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