Taylor Swift donates $15,000 to firefighter and his family
Taylor Swift is at it again.
The pop starlet is lending a hand to someone in need.
Billboard confirms that Swift donated $15,000 to a Texas firefighter whose family members were injured in a car accident on Saturday.
Volunteer firefighter Aaron Van Riper responded to a call Saturday near Huntsville, Texas, about a head-on collision and soon learned that his wife and young son among the victims.
"It's my family. My wife was laying there on the ground. (By) the look of the car, I don't know how either one of them lived. There was nothing left of that car," Aaron Van Riper, assistant chief for the Thomas Lake Fire Department told KTRK.
According to the station, the accident took place Saturday afternoon when the car carrying Van Riper's wife and child collided with an oncoming pickup truck.
Van Riper's wife, Amber, and 7-year-old son, Jonathan, were airlifted to a hospital with a number of fractures. According to KTRK, the boy has been released from the hospital, but Amber remains there.
Van Riper says someone by the name of Taylor Swift donated money to the GoFundMe page set up following the accident.