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Damar Hamlin's GoFundMe hits $6 million after Bills safety's cardiac arrest on 'Monday Night Football'

If there's hope to be taken from the terrifying situation around Damar Hamlin, it comes straight from the Buffalo Bills safety's two-year-old GoFundMe.

Less than 24 hours after Hamlin's collapse and hospitalization caused the suspension of a "Monday Night Football" game, his only available public fundraiser has hit $6 million. The original goal of the GoFundMe, set up to fund a toy drive in his hometown of McKees Rocks, Pa., was $2,500.

Over 200,000 people have donated to the cause.

Hamlin's representatives updated the GoFundMe page Wednesday, saying they were "awestruck" at the "support and generosity" shown over the past two days.