There’s a new development concerning a Nebraska snowplow driver who was facing disciplinary action.

He has been fired for taking state equipment onto private property and for speaking about it.

Now he's getting a lawyer.

During the blizzard more than a month ago, Chuck Odom helped an acquaintance, who had heart problems and needed to make it to a doctor's appointment.

He took a state plow to the man's property near Bennington to get him out but he became stuck.

A second plow became stuck, too.

A state loader eventually freed them.

Odom had been suspended for five weeks with pay.

He tells Channel 6 News that the state roads department fired him for talking to investigative reporter Mike McKnight about the incident.

He says he signed an agreement not to talk about it during an internal investigation.

He believed it only involved other state employees, not the media.

His only comment in the story on Channel 6 News was that he was trying to do a good deed not use state equipment for personal use.

Roads officials won't comment on whether there is more to the story until the firing is appealed formally.