FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – A Mezzaluna Pizzeria delivery driver in Flagler County is being hailed as an “angel” by the sheriff's office after she helped an older customer recently.
The woman who ordered the pizza didn’t answer the doorbell at her home in the Plantation Oaks subdivision off Old Kings Road south, deputies said.
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Karen Vogt, 26, said she thought she heard a crash inside the home. Instead of driving on to her next delivery, she found a way to get into the house to see if she could help during the early evening incident, deputies said.
She found the woman, who had fallen and injured her wrist, just inside the front door and called her employer for help.
Her co-workers called law enforcement and an ambulance while Vogt, who worked in an assisted living facility before she began working at the pizzeria’s Halifax Plantation store, stayed with the injured woman.
When units from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office and county rescue arrived, they helped the woman off the floor and onto a couch and waited with her until her son arrived to take her to the hospital for treatment.
Cmdr. Jeff Stuart, one of the FCSO members called to the scene, praised Vogt for her compassion.
“If Ms. Vogt had not stayed to help, the victim could possibly have been on the floor until someone came to check on her. I feel that Ms. Vogt went above and beyond to offer assistance to another person in need,” Stuart said.
He also called the pizza restaurant owner to tell him how much he appreciated Vogt’s assistance.
She will be honored at a later date by the Sheriff’s Office for her kind action.
Vogt said she knew the resident because she comes into Mezzaluna “pretty often.”
Vogt said shyly that her employer was happy and proud of her action, and so was her mom, who she called right away after the incident happened, deputies said.
“I was glad that I decided to go in and not just leave,” she said.