Last week Tim McCrory, the driver of the truck loaded with plywood, has shown by example that even in the face of a disaster people are people, and there is nothing more valuable than human life.
Realizing that despite the noble character of his act he certainly shines dismissal, Tim still has not withdrawn from the plan and helped to protect a hundred homes from hurricane Irma coming to Florida.
Last Friday he got an assignment from the company Western Express deliver 960 sheets of plywood on shopping warehouse home depot Home Depot located in the city of Zephyrhills, Florida.
The way it ran on the interstate I-95. While the Northern strip of the highway was Packed with cars with people running away from Irma, Tim was driving on the South.
However, soon his plans to intervene unforeseen circumstances, which forced the driver to stop on one of the wheels of his truck blew a tire. Remedy took a whole seven hours.
When Tim got to the warehouse, and it was nine o’clock in the evening, the store was already closed and boarded up, so as to wait out the storm. The trucker met the Manager, but he said Home Depot will open only on Tuesday.
Contact the Manager of the Western Express, the driver received a task to carry the load in Atlanta. Tim agreed, but before a long road decided to take a NAP for a couple hours.
About two o’clock he was awakened by the police. Once the plans Tim in Atlanta, they invited him to give a veneer of local residentsto protect their homes.
After Tim gave his consent, arrived at the scene about 20 officers, and together they unloaded the plywood out of the truck. Within four hours it was dismantled inhabitants of the next 150 homes.
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“I have children. I’m a family man. If I were in their situation, I wish someone did this for me,” said Tim McCrory.
Appearing before the authorities, the truck driver explained that he could not do otherwise.
“Approaching category five storm. Home Depot was closed. People needed this plywood” – so he reasoned its decision.
“They said it’s not mine to give. I was just an American. And I tried to be a good American,” added Tim.
The same day Tim McCrory announced that forced it to fire.
But the version of the chief Executive officer of Western Express, contacted journalists Inside Edition, a little different from the one that said McCrory.
“We understand that was going through his mind during those emergencies, so we didn’t, and we have no plans to do so. Ideally, he ought to tell us what he is going to distribute the plywood, but we understand that he was trying to do the right thing, and we welcome him to our team. In the last some days I personally tried to contact him several times, but was unable to reach him,” said Paul wick, chief Executive officer of the company.
Knowing that Tim lost his job, Tracy Dillon drew, one of the residents of Zephyrhills, which was plywood, organized on the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe fundraising in support of it.
For three days the efforts of more than 260 people turned out to raise about $7,600. When Tracy called Tim to tell him about it, he was very touched and asked everyone, who else is going to send him the money, spend it to help the victims of hurricane Irma.
