When 14-year-old Cohen Stahl decided to help emergency workers by digging fire hydrants out of the snow after a recent winter storm in Pennsylvania, he couldn't have imagined what would happen next.

Stahl, an eight-grade student, took his all-terrain vehicle with a plow out to help move snow from driveways, clear snow around mailboxes and dig fire hydrants out of the snow too, when his ATV began smoking and caught fire.

"It just shut off and started smoking. I just saw flames. I started throwing snow on it. It didn't work," Stahl told WJAC.

The local volunteer fire department took note of his good work as fire hydrants buried in snow can cause big delays for fire fighters looking to find the hydrants in emergencies.

The Conemaugh Township VFD station posted photos of Stahl's ATV which caught fire. That's when a local business decided to set up and GoFundMe page to help raise money to get him a new vehicle.

Jason Keller of Cernic Cycle World in Johnsontown, Pennsylvania decided to start the page to help Cohen, and donations have now exceeded the $10,000 goal and by Tuesday were at $10,620.

Keller wrote on the GoFundMe page, "Let’s all pull together as a community and help this nice young man get a new used ATV so he can continue helping the community and being an outstanding young man like he already has Showed us [sic]. I will be helping him get the atv at a discounted price."

Stahl's proud mother Nicole has been impressed with his achievements in the community writing, "He became popular very fast!! He’s a good kid!

The Hardin County Sheriff's Office is mourning the death of one of their own.

Officials with the sheriff's office posted during the early-morning hours Saturday that a Hardin County deputy had died in an ATV accident.

The sheriff's office said the deputy was off duty when the accident occurred.

Kentucky State Police, the lead agency investigating the crash, sent out additional information Saturday morning, identifying the deputy as Kevin Johnson, 36. The crash happened Friday night.

According to investigators, Johnson was operating an ATV near the 100 block of Lincoln Avenue in Elizabethtown when, for reasons unknown, he lost control of the vehicle. The ATV ran off the roadway and then struck a fence, troopers said.

Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene by the coroner's office. The deputy was with a 7-year-old passenger, who was identified by Johnson's family and friends as his daughter, Aliyana, who was flown to Norton Children's Hospital, where she remains in critical condition.

The Johnson’s family and friends are asking for cards and letters to be sent to lift Aliyana’s spirits as she is currently in the ICU and unaware she has lost her hero, her dad.

Cards and letters can be sent to:

Norton Children’s Hospital

Attn: Aliyana Johnson

231 East Chestnut St.

Louisville, KY 40202

"Please keep the deputy's family and the Hardin County Sheriff's Office in your thoughts and prayers," the sheriff's office said on Facebook.

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Additional details were not released by state police or the sheriff's office.