It’s something most people have experienced at one time or another: losing your wallet. 

With so much in our wallets, IDs, credit cards, and even cash, going through the hassle of replacing all of that can be a massive headache. 

Just a few days ago, in Coraopolis, a wallet was lost while the piles of snow still covered the ground, meaning the wallet truly could’ve been anywhere. 

Thanks to the effort and spirit of one U.S. Postal Service worker going above and beyond, this lost wallet found its way home. 

At 25, Bruce Armah is a new postal worker, and when he found a wallet buried in the snow on a frigid winter morning, he tucked it away until he could look for an ID card or anything with an identifying address. 

After he finished his workday, on his own time, he got into his car and began driving to the address. 

“It was my father’s good deeds,” Armah said. “If you find someone’s property, and you return it. He lost his wallet, and someone returned it to him, so I was just returning the favor. I was happy to return the wallet.” 

However, the story doesn’t end with Armah pulling up to the house and returning the wallet. Once he arrived, he learned the owner of the wallet had moved away – and not just a few blocks away. 

The owner of the wallet lives in McDonald, and so Armah drives there, because that’s what his father would’ve done. 

Armah then finds the new address and knocks on the door. That’s when Matt Bryan came to the door, knowing his wife was sick over losing her wallet somewhere earlier that day. 

“There was $100 cash in there, credit cards, ID, healthcare cards,” Matt recalled. “He wanted nothing in return; he just said it was the right thing to do.”  

In all, Armah drove from Coraopolis to Clinton, to McDonald, and to Ambridge, 52 miles in total, on his own time, in his own car, making his father proud as well as his fellow postal workers. 

“They’ve got 8,000, 9,000 deliveries, and they’re walking 13 miles per day, then they get put on overtime, which is another two hours, and another five miles every day, so at the end of the day, they’re pretty spent,” said Thomas Redlinger, a safety specialist at USPS. “With the weather, I know we’re getting a bad rap right now, but with the weather, I think we’re doing a tremendous job.” 

Armah is a quiet mail carrier who did this all on his own and told no one about it. 

Matt Bryan, however, told a postal worker friend, who told another, and another, until it ended up becoming a legend. 

“I was complimenting him to some of his coworkers who mentioned it up the chain, which gets us to this point,” Bryan said. “I can’t thank him enough; it’s great to see that young people are doing the right thing.” 

“He asked me why I returned the wallet, and I was like, it’s my father’s good deed,” Armah added. 

In spite of the snow, in spite of the sub-zero temperatures, Armah went above and beyond to do a good deed he learned from his father. 

Pittsburgh Bureau of Emergency Medical Services crews are seeing an increase in out-of-hospital births in the field, such as in a car on the side of a roadway.

One of the city’s paramedics has now taken it into her own hands to tackle a common issue they face during those births: the cold.

“I’ve crocheted two hats for each unit, just in case you have twins,” paramedic crew chief Briana Kramer said. 

She’s made 36 in total for the newborns.  

“They are a precious little population. They’re a population I find near and dear to my heart,” Kramer said. 

But she said the beanies aren’t just a cute accessory, especially when a birth happens on the side of the road.

“I had a little bit of anxiety with the cold temperatures being negative 10 degrees a lot of nights,” she said. 

She pointed to a field delivery last January that she was on hand for. 

“Perfectly healthy baby. Their only issue was that they were hypothermic,” Kramer said.

They didn’t have hats in their kits then, so a small towel was placed around that newborn’s head. That specific instance, and the lack of hats, inspired her to start making the beanies.

“It is already such a unique and difficult thing to be born out of hospital,” Kramer said. 

EMS officials said they’ve gone from around eight pre-hospital births a year to 12 per year. Kramer said she believes the reason for the increase comes down to the health care system still recovering from COVID. 

“It’s hard for people to get in touch with primary care,” Kramer said. “The economy is really hard, just transportation for people to get to their appointments, to get to the hospital when it’s delivery time.”

It means people are waiting until the last second to go to the hospital. She’s also noticed an increase in winter out-of-hospital births.

“It’s a little concerning. Changes the way we prep for things a little bit,” Kramer said.

She hopes the beanies will go home with the newborns, and families will keep them as a reminder of how Pittsburgh EMS helped bring them into this world.

“It’s a little emotional,” Kramer said. “It’s a little piece of me that is going home with them.”