Body camera video shows Officer Edwardo Hernandez breaking open a window and dragging a driver out of the burning vehicle.
A police officer in The Colony is being credited with saving a man trapped in a burning car.Officer Edwardo Hernandez has only been on the job at The Colony Police Department for 19 months, but his eight and a half year career in law enforcement prepared him for the moment.Body camera video shows Hernandez breaking open a window and dragging a driver out of the burning vehicle."I can’t lose the guy. Let the guy die on me. I wasn’t going to allow that to happen," he said.
Hernandez grabbed his breaching tool and started to swing at the driver-side window."Stand back, I'm breaking your window," Hernandez can be heard saying in the video.Officer Hernandez was able to cut the air bag and get the driver to safety."Your car is on fire, man. Get out. Get out of the car," Hernandez can be heard saying.The reaction could have been life-saving."Truly making that life and death difference within the span of a minute," said Hernandez.
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