This is the moment brave policemen rescued a man from a flaming automobile.
On July 2, at about 2 a.m., officers responded to a report of a burning car on Winant Avenue in Ridgefield, New Jersey, USA.
According to a statement from the Ridgefield Park Police Department, the driver, identified as Christopher Vagnone, was stuck inside the flaming Honda and unable to unlock the doors because of an electrical issue.
The first policeman on the scene, Sergeant Nicholas Triano, shattered the windows and entered the car to save the man.
Triano attempted to remove the driver from the driver-side window together with patrolmen Nicholas D’Alto and Anthony D’elia, but the heat and oncoming flames made it impossible.
As policemen reassemble on the sedan’s passenger side, body-cam video captures the front of the automobile engulfed in flames.
According to police, they utilised extinguishers to help put out the flames long enough for them to pull the IT analyst out of the car through the passenger-side window.
As the flames grew, many policemen can be seen attempting to extract the driver via the passenger window.
They can be heard yelling, “Come on,” as flames lick the hood and sirens scream in the distance.
Finally, barely in time, police manage to extricate him, carrying the comatose guy through the window.
Police reported that Christopher wasn’t significantly wounded and was released to a relative present.
To put out the fire, the Ridgefield Park Fire Department came.
Elias Rodriguez, a good Samaritan from New York City, who stopped to aid in the rescue, was also thanked by police.
Vagnone is a Fort Lee, New Jersey-based IT analyst that works for Novartis.
Officers Anthony D’Elia, Nicholas D’Alto, and Sergeant Nicholas Triano were the brave officers that saved him.
Police Chief Joseph Rella told the Daily Voice that officers worked “without regard for their own personal safety” to free Vagnone despite “intense heat, broken glass, and a host of physical barriers.”
‘They did a great job. We’re very proud,’ he said.