A general view of John Wayne Airport Orange County – Source: Getty
A woman launched a fundraiser on GoFundMe for James Blair, an airport worker at the John Wayne Airport in Orange County who she saw walking with a lot of difficulty. The woman, a passenger from Utah named Lacinda Thackeray, filmed a video of Blair walking with a lot of trouble on the tarmac.
The video, which was posted to TikTok, promptly went viral and received around 6 million views on the social media platform, as per Fox News. The person in the video was identified as Blair, who is a veteran of the U.S. Navy.
The GoFundMe for James Blair has raised more than $174,000 out of its target of $200,000
Lacinda Thackeray set up a fundraiser for James Blair on GoFundMe, and shared that while she initially did not think of raising money for the airport worker, she had been unable to stop thinking about the difficulties he endures while performing gruelling labor at the tarmac. She wrote in a note attached to the fundraiser,…