The man whom McCrary tried to save, Daniel Boutin, later called him "my guardian angel" Tennessee nurse Boone McCrary is being remembered as a "guardian angel" after he died while trying to help a stranded man in the floodwaters from Hurricane Helene.

I’ve never had anyone risk their life for me,” David Boutin, the man Boone McCrary had set out to rescue said. “From what I hear that was the way he always been. He’s my guardian angel, that’s for sure.