Dramatic video shows the moment cops rescue a man from a car engulfed in flames.
Breaking911 reports that deputies from Constable Ted Heap’s Office recently made a dramatic rescue, pulling a driver from a burning vehicle just before flames engulfed the car in which he was trapped.
The driver, a 20-year-old man from Northwest Houston, fell asleep at the wheel a little before 6 a.m. on Sunday, December 8, and crashed into a tree in the 15200 block of Clay Road.
A Precinct 5 sergeant on his way home from his shift found the vehicle on fire while a wrecker driver tried in vain to get into the car and help the trapped driver. The sergeant and other deputies called to the scene used multiple fire extinguishers to temporarily slow down the spreading flames while they worked to free the driver, whose right foot was caught underneath the damaged dashboard.
Deputies struggled to free the injured driver as the flames spread into the car’s interior. At last, after cutting the driver’s pants, deputies were able to pull him to safety just before the passenger compartment became fully engulfed…
