It didn't matter that Thursday was Roanoke firefighter Scott Hetherington's first day back at work since suffering a cardiac arrest during a fire; he still had to scrub the toilet at station No. 7.

"That's his job. That's his responsibility," fellow firefighter Michael Peay said Thursday afternoon while filling out some paperwork at the station.

"I shouldn't have to," Hetherington shot back with a smile. "I'm the old guy here."

Hetherington, known to firefighters as "Scooter," has been off duty since November, when he went down while battling a house fire on Ferdinand Avenue Southwest.

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