Oscar
winner, Jamie Foxx helped rescue a man whose pickup truck crashed and caught
fire in front of his house.
The
driver of the Toyota Tacoma, Brett Kyle, aged 32, was said to have been driving
at a high rate of speed in Moorpark, a town in Ventura County, California, when
the truck left the road, traveled into a drainage ditch and rolled over
multiple times, according to a statement from California Highway Patrol Officer
Marco Marin.
The truck
landed on its passenger side and caught fire with Kyle still inside.
"As
I'm getting him out, I said, 'You've got to help me get you out because I don't
want to have to leave you,' " Foxx told CNN "I said, 'You've angels
around you.'"
Foxx and
an off-duty EMT cut Kyle out of his seat belt and dragged him out of the
pickup.
"I
don't look at it as heroic. I just look at it as ... you just had to do
something," Foxx said, "It all worked out."
"When
fire crews arrived on scene just one minute later, they reported the vehicle as
fully involved in fire," Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Capt.
Mike Lindbery said, "The patient was taken to the hospital with burn
injuries. There was no one else in the truck."
"It
was a pretty courageous thing to do," said Lindbery, speaking about the
rescue. "It's rare these days that you find someone willing to jump in to
help like that."
Ventura
County Fire and American Medical Response transported Kyle to Los Robles
Hospital and Medical Center. The collision report documented that he had major
head, chest, neck and waist trauma.
Kyle was
arrested and accused of driving under the influence of alcohol. The accident is
under investigation by the California Highway Patrol's Moorpark Area Office.
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