On I-94 in Minnesota, a team of good samaritans and highway rescue personnel bandied together to save a stranger trapped unconscious inside a burning car.
Simply incredible dash camera footage shows 5 or 6 people pulling over and leaping out of their cars after an SUV runs off the highway and bursts into flames.
They fail in their team effort to open the doors as the flames rise, but a member of the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Freeway Incident Response Safety Teamâformerly called the Highway Helperâarrived in time to smash the window glass and pull the man out to safety.
It all started when 71-year-old Sam Orbovich, lost consciousness behind the wheel of his Honda. When color and motion returned to his vision, the Highway Helper had smashed the glass.
“I am alive today because several good Samaritans and professional first responders saved my life,” Orbovich said of the Thursday night incident.
“It is incredibly heroic when people driving down the highway choose to put themselves at risk by running toward the flames to extract a stranger from a burning car that could explode at any moment.”
The doors were unlocked, but blocked from opening by the highway guardrail. Team efforts to bend the rail out far enough away from the doors failed, as did one man’s effort to put out the fire with an extinguisher, and another’s attempt to break the window.
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Orbovich suffered minor injuries, and the footage has gone viral.
“The State Patrol is grateful that the driver is OK due to the heroic actions of the individuals who stopped to help,” Lt. Jill Frankfurth told the Star Tribune. “The actions of those who pulled this motorist from the burning car demonstrates the importance and willingness of people throughout Minnesota looking out for each other. We are thankful everyone remained safe.”
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