Cop Leaves Note For Skeptical Husband, Proves Wife's Heroism

MORRIS, IL — Most of us have had to get a doctor's note for an absence from school or work, but a Morris woman got the ultimate excuse note after she came home late from a run. Morris police shared resident Brandi Rodeghero's Facebook post after she alerted authorities to a small fire in town.

"So a few days ago there was a small porch fire on the west side of town," police wrote on Facebook Monday. Rodeghero was out on a run when she spotted the fire and stopped to help. But in a joking social media post of her own, she said her husband, Joe, would probably doubt her heroics.

"That night she sent us a private Facebook message expressing how grateful she was that everything turned out well," police said. "She jokingly added that she might need a note from the officer on scene because it sounded like a tall tale to tell her husband that she was late because she was helping out at a fire!"

A Morris cop, Officer Mitchell, decided to help her out and left a note on her car windshield the next morning.

"Brandi definitely kept a duplex from being burnt down on her run," Officer Mitchell wrote. "Good job, Brandi!"

Rodeghero was delighted by the note proving to her husband that she'd had a hand in saving the duplex from almost certain destruction. "I told the officer I would probably need a note, because (my husband) would have doubts. Running around at night? Not coming home, and saying you helped with a fire?"

"The Morris Police Department has the BEST officers," she wrote, teasing her husband, "So see Joey, I was not roaming the streets."

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