Jamie Foxx has sure played plenty of heroes on the hollywood action movies but on Monday night he played one in real life. Jamie Foxx helped rescue a man whose pickup truck crashed and caught fire in front of Foxx's home.
The time he rescued the man was 01:13, it was reported by California Highway Patrol Officer Marco Marin that Brett
Kyle, 32, was driving his Toyota Tacoma "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.
The truck landed on its passenger side and went ablaze 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 affiliate KCAL. "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.
The pickup truck's driver had numerous injuries, officials said.
"I don't look at it as heroic. I just look at it as ... you just had to do something," Foxx told KCAL. "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 reportedly 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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