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Los Angeles area mailman uses belt to save man injured in chainsaw accident: 'Everyday hero'

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Los Angeles sheriff officials are hailing a mailman as an “everyday hero” after he saved the life of a bleeding man who sliced up his arm with a chainsaw.

Postal carrier Fernando Garcia was working his route in Norwalk on Friday when he heard cries for help and saw the man on the ground covered in blood.

A quick-thinking Garcia took off his leather belt and fashioned a tourniquet with it to stop the injured man from bleeding to death, CBS 2 Los Angeles reports. “Looped it through the hole, put it around his arm, tighten it as best as I could, and just wrapped it up,” he told the station.

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