Shocking video captured by Ridgefield Park Police Department shows New Jersey officers heroically pulling a driver from his burning car on Saturday, July 2. The images became known after the police department itself published them on their website.
Officials who saw the dire situation had to use a Halligan bar, a spiked tool that makes opening things easier, to pry open the driver’s-side side window of a Honda Accord when flames blazed up the front of the vehicle in hours of the week devoured. early morning.
Three officers then grabbed the 55-year-old driver, whom the Daily Voice identified as IT analyst Christopher Vagnone, and dragged him out of a window.
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“Come on!” one of the officers yelled as the other officers pulled on the apparently unconscious driver’s arms to pull him out of the race against the flames.
A local outlet claimed the police officers, Officers Anthony D’Elia and Nicholas D’Alto, along with Sergeant Nicholas Triano, provided first aid after Vagnone was removed, the Daily reported. He was then handed over to a relative at the scene, the newspaper added.
Officers battled “intense heat, broken glass and a variety of physical barriers” to rescue Vagnone “without regard to his own personal safety,” Police Chief Joseph Rella told the outlet.
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“You have done a great job. We’re very proud,” he concluded.