Driver in blazing car honks for help. Watch as Arizona cop ‘sprang into action'
A driver in Arizona was trapped in a car fully engulfed in flames following a car crash when she began honking for help.
Then a police officer 'sprang into action,' according to a May 28 Facebook post by the Goodyear Police Department.
On May 25, after running over to the driver's side of the car, officer Dakota Berry 'realized someone was still alive in the vehicle,' he said in a news conference by the police department.
That's when he smashed through the driver's side window to pull out the woman as her hair was on fire, the police department said.
He used a fire extinguisher to put out the rest of the blaze, and the woman was transported to a local burn center and is expected to survive, police said.
Berry said he sustained hand injuries during the rescue.
In an 'incredible twist of fate' the woman he rescued turned out to be a Goodyear firefighter's daughter, police said.
'As ironic as that is, I obviously would've done the same thing for anyone else,' Berry said. ' ... I wish prayers for her and her family and for a speedy recovery.'
A video accompanying the Facebook post shows Berry rushing to the burning car as the horn repeatedly goes off and he's heard yelling for the woman to 'get out.'
This marked Berry's first rescue of this magnitude, he said at the news conference.
'Simply just doing my job,' he said.
Goodyear is about a 20-mile drive west from Phoenix.
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