Officer Joshua Hobson responded last week to a burglary call and soon discovered there was another issue — one he could fix himself
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- On Jan. 7, during an overtime shift, Joshua Hobson of the Bethlehem Police Department responded to a burglary call
- He encountered an 88-year-old woman whose front door lock had been improperly installed by a handyman
- Hobson bought the woman a new lock and installed it for her the same day she’d called police and the story has since gone viral — but this isn’t his first act of kindness
Last spring, Joshua Hobson was among the first officers from the Bethlehem Police Department in Pennsylvania to arrive to the scene of a dangerous four-alarm fire.
“Send every firetruck you have,” he said over his police radio on May 2, 2025, as he pulled up to a burning apartment building. He then climbed each of its five floors to urge residents to flee.
With another officer’s help, amid thick smoke and flames, Hobson carried to safety an elderly woman using a wheelchair who had been trapped in her top-floor apartment…