OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A real feel-good story got here a couple of week after a horrible accident.
A younger DoorDash driver watched his first and solely automobile go up in flames in a northwest Oklahoma Metropolis neighborhood proper after a supply.
“I had completed delivering for a buyer and I bought again in my automobile and that’s when the whole lot went flawed,” mentioned Ian Baker
The supply driver says when he bought behind the wheel and began his automobile, his dashboard lit up like a Christmas tree.
“I simply darted out of there. As quickly as I bought out of there, smoke began developing and hearth, it began catching on hearth. Hearth isn’t any joke, it actually isn’t. It simply damage me a lot, that was my first automobile ever,” mentioned Baker.
The residents of Rose Creek got here out to assist, calling 911. Footage of the burned out automobile made their strategy to the neighborhood social media web page.
“When all of the neighbors noticed what occurred and the way devastating that should have been for him, our hearts broke for him. We need to make him complete. We have to get this child a automobile,” mentioned resident Margaux Lippoldt.
In all, the residents of the Rose Creek neighborhood raised over $10,000.
“We have now a extremely eclectic group of individuals with a ton of various ability units and so they have been capable of be part of collectively,” mentioned Shaye Matthews, of Rose Creek.
So the neighborhood ‘automobile man’ discovered a frivolously used Dodge Charger and the ‘insurance coverage man’ bought Ian a coverage.
Only one week after the fireplace, the Rose Creek residents gave Ian his second automobile.
“Everybody got here in and helped me to get a brand new automobile and I’m simply so grateful. I simply really feel blessed, ,” mentioned Baker.
“All week lengthy now we have been pumped to do that. I’m simply actually happy with my neighborhood and all of the neighbors to come back collectively to do one thing unimaginable for any person that we had by no means met earlier than,” mentioned Lippoldt.
“We bought to see the Oklahoma Commonplace in motion, it was wonderful. We have now individuals with such extremely beneficiant hearts,” mentioned Matthews.
