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Dec 13, 2018, Chambers County Deputies Braedon Boznango and Carlton Carrington responded to major motor vehicle crash south of Winnie, TX. As the deputies run towards the burning car, one can be heard calling to bystanders, “Where? Where?” as the bystanders point out where the driver was trapped.
The bystanders point to the driver, calling out, “Can you pull him out? Can you pull him out?”
“Sir? Sir? Can you give your arms?” Deputy Boznango can be heard on his body cam video calling out to the driver as he attempts to pull the man out of the car.
Deputy Boznango attempted to pull the driver from the flames as he called to Deputy Carrington for help. “We have to act fast or this man is going to burn to death,” Carrington can be heard saying. The video goes on to show the deputies pulling a man through a door window as the rest of the vehicle was swallowed in flames. The deputies took him to a nearby puddle to extinguish flames that had spread to the man’s legs.
“They are heroes in my eyes, and I think they’re probably heroes in everybody’s eyes,” Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said. “Because that could be any of us in that car on fire, and I can assure you there are a lot of people that would’ve just sat back and watched it burn.”
The driver, who was the only one in the car, was airlifted to a Houston hospital in critical condition.
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Original post from police
Sheriff Brian Hawthorne is proud to release this video of the heroic actions of two Chambers County Sheriff’s Deputies. At approximately 8:33 p.m. on December 13, 2018, there was a major motor vehicle crash in the 3800 block SH 124, just south of Winnie.
Upon arrival at this crash scene, Chambers County Deputies Braedon Boznango and Carlton Carrington found a vehicle fully engulfed in flames from the rollover crash. There was an unconscious male lying in the front seat with his abdomen and legs on fire. The two deputies approached the vehicle without regard for their own safety and began reaching inside the vehicle to rescue the sole occupant.
Deputies Boznango and Carrington were able to pull the unconscious male through the door window opening and onto the ground. Both deputies were able to place the injured man into a nearby water puddle and extinguish all flames on his body. The male was airlifted to a Houston hospital in critical condition.
Both deputies were uninjured during their rescue of this man, however, the intensity of this fire melted parts of their equipment while on their uniforms. Had these deputies not acted quickly, decisively and without total disregard for their own safety, the seriously injured man would have perished inside the vehicle.
The attached video is a combination of three cameras, one in car and two body cameras.
Hero deputies pull man from burning car: https://t.co/8dbob22mra via @YouTube
— HYGO News (@HygoNews) December 19, 2018