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Miami Herald
7 days ago
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
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.
Associated Press
7 days ago
- General
- Associated Press
Officer rescues woman from burning car in aftermath of interstate crash in Phoenix
PHOENIX (AP) — A woman trapped inside a burning car on an interstate in west Phoenix was pulled to safety by an officer who happened to be driving by and busted through the glass on her window. The rescue early Saturday morning unfolded as Officer Dakota Berry returned to his duties in nearby Goodyear after booking a suspect at a county jail. When he spotted the two-vehicle crash on Interstate 10, Berry could hear honking from the car that was in flames and realized someone was inside. He rushed to his patrol SUV to get a glass-breaking tool, ran back across the interstate to the woman's car and used the tool to knock several holes in the driver's side window. Her feet then popped out. 'Get out, get out, get out,' Berry said. The woman, whose hair was on fire, can be heard crying. The officer grabbed her legs and pulled her through the broken window. She was brought in critical condition to a burn center and is expected to survive. Berry, who tried putting out the fire with his hands and finally stopped it with an extinguisher, suffered a hand injury during the rescue. The woman is the daughter of a Goodyear firefighter. 'As ironic as that is, I would have done the same thing for anyone else, any community member,' Berry told reporters Wednesday. After the woman was pulled from the burning car, police say Berry put out flares on the interstate to make sure there weren't other collisions.
