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Neighbors rescue man from burning car in Revere
Fire officials said the driver is alive, but being treated for life-threatening injuries.
Neighbors rescued a driver from a fiery car crash in Revere early Saturday morning, WCVB reported.
A fire official on the site told WCVB the crash happened around 3 a.m on Revere Beach Boulevard.
Video taken from security camera footage obtained by NBC10 Boston shows the car speeding and crashing into a wall, immediately bursting into flames. In the video, neighbors are seen taking their hoses to douse the flames and breaking open the car door to pull the driver out of the wreck. Then, one of the bystanders administers CPR on the driver as police drive up.
“We did teamwork. Our intention was, and all that we cared about, was to get him out alive,” one of the witnesses told WCVB. “Because if we leave him for another five or 10 minutes, he would’ve died.”
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She said her and her neighbors used a dumbbell to smash open the car’s window and scissors to cut the driver out of the seatbelt.
The fire official told WCVB that the driver and one rescuer are being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
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