Man Cuts His Own Arms Off With Saw At Home Depot! Man Saws Arms at home Depot in West Covina in Critical Condition | WEST COVINA, Calif. (KABC) -- A man walked into a Home Depot in West Covina Wednesday and used saws to cut both of his arms.The store was closed for business Wednesday afternoon as employees inside cleaned up the bloody scene.Police say a customer picked up several saws and began cutting into both of his own arms.\"The witnesses said they first noticed him in the action of cutting himself with the saws,\" said West Covina Police Corporal Rudy Lopez. \"The scene itself was quite gruesome.\"As 911 was called, an off-duty paramedic happened to be in the same aisle and rushed to help.\"The paramedic suggested that we get some twine and some rags from within the store, at which time when they acquired that, both the officer and the paramedic applied tourniquets to both arms, probably saving his life,\" said Lopez.The man was hospitalized in unknown condition. He was not immediately identified. He was in surgery at Queen of the Valley Hospital.(Reuters) - A man who used handsaws at a Los Angeles area Home Depot store to saw his own arms to the bone was recovering in a hospital on Thursday in critical condition after quick work by rescuers, police said.The individual, whose name has not been released following his self-mutilation on Wednesday, survived a surgery and it appears doctors were able to save his arms, said West Covina police spokesman Corporal Rudy Lopez. It was unclear what spurred the man to take the action.The man, who is about 50 years old, walked into a Home Depot store in West Covina and acted like any other customer until he grabbed several handsaws and began cutting into his upper limbs, Lopez said. Panicked customers called 911, he said.It appeared he used at least three saws, including one designed to cut drywall, police said.\"The amount of pain that someone has to go through to continue to use the saw on yourself, to me I just can\'t fathom that,\" Lopez said.An off-duty fire official with a paramedic background from nearby Pasadena was at the store and went to the aisle where the man was bleeding. He worked with a police officer, who arrived within minutes of the emergency call, to apply improvised tourniquets they made from twine or rope, Lopez said.\"I don\'t believe that he would have survived had it not been for the timing and the grace of having (an off-duty) paramedic there who offered the right kind of advice in saving this man,\" Lopez said.The wounded man passed out as he was losing a \"tremendous\" amount of blood, in fact so much that an officer at the scene was surprised the individual was still alive, Lopez said.West Covina fire paramedics arrived three minutes after receiving the emergency call, said the city\'s Fire Chief Rick Genovese.Once there, they took over life-saving efforts and transported the man to Queen of the Valley Hospital, he said.Police have talked to the man\'s family and are seeking to determine what led him to saw his arms, Lopez said.