Waste Pro driver makes crucial call

A Waste Pro driver on the job in Cross City, Florida, is being thanked by a family in that city after helping rescue a man who had collapsed outside his home.

Driver Kenneth McGarrah of Waste Pro’s Fanning Springs Division in northern Florida was in the right place at the right time the week before Christmas when he drove by as a woman was waving her arms for help.

The woman was the wife of a Cross City resident named George, who prefers further anonymity, who had collapsed in their yard. In a letter to Waste Pro, George said he had been placed on a new medication and had a drop in blood pressure, causing his loss of consciousness.

After being waved down, McGarrah stopped his truck, called 911, and helped stabilize George until an ambulance arrived. McGarrah says he did what anyone would do. “I got out to help someone, the ambulance [arrived], and I left,” he says.

According to a Waste Pro news release, George fully recovered and was able to celebrate Christmas at home. “Thanks to Waste Pro for being such a good neighbor to us, especially Kenneth,” he wrote in a letter to the Longwood, Florida-based waste and recycling firm.