A GoFundMe looking to help a volunteer firefighter battling COVID has raised more than three times its goal.
“We are hoping to raise $10,000 to cover Jason’s rent, utilities, and car payment,” the GoFundMe states. “Once he is sent home, we plan to cover his food expenses as well.”
After just one day, the GoFundMe has raised more than $30,000.
Jason Doyle, a 38-year-old volunteer firefighter from Rockport, “has been battling COVID for about 3 weeks now and has been in Beth Israel Hospital ever since his landlord found him in poor condition after a well-being check,” the GoFundMe states.
He became a volunteer firefighter in 2002, and has been a DPW employee in town since 2001, according to the site.
He has an underlying health complication, which means he “will have a long recovery once he gets home.”