Coronavirus East Haven: GoFundMe Supports First Responders

EAST HAVEN, CT — Michael Roy of East Haven has created a GoFundMe campaign to raise more than $650,000 to help support local first responders and others in need of food during the COVID-19 public health crisis.

To promote the campaign, he drives his truck around town, emblazoned with American flags and speakers in the truck bed playing patriotic music. He calls his fundraising campaign the 'East Haven Proud USA Truck.'

Many residents have been sharing video of Roy driving around town. And East Haven Police noted his campaign on its Facebook page.

On GoFundMe, Roy wrote that the money he collects will go to purchasing "food and supplies for our local first responders, East Haven Food Pantry and any other East Haven-related emergency groups that are helping and in need of funds for helping all of us get threw this." He said he'd also make the food deliveries.

"We really need your support and any dollar amount will help. Thank you to all that donate and god bless you," Roy wrote. "I love all the support y’all are spreading for what I am doing. I do this to let you know that your not alone and we are all here together as one. We will get threw this. A very very very small portion will cover my fuel cost. U.S.A."

Roy has raised $480 since he started the campaign.

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