A truck driver is being hailed a hero after pulling a motorist out of a burning car on Thursday morning.
Truck driver Julian Kaczor was traveling on the southbound Interstate 95 in Jacksonville, Florida, when he saw a Ford Five Hundred speed past him, nearly clipping his rig, before ultimately losing controlling and crashing into a construction barrier.
Kaczor immediately pulled over, and jumped out his rig to check on the driver, who was trapped in the car as it erupted in flames.
The 37-year-old truck driver grabbed a fire extinguisher from his rig and tried to put the fire out, but when that didn’t work, he forced the car door open and pulled the driver out of the car as it was still burning.
“He kept saying, ‘My car, my car, my car.’ I said, ‘Don’t worry about the car, the car can be replaced. At least you’re alive,'” Kazcor told reporters. “He probably has a family so he needed to go home to see his family too,” he added.
According to WTSP, the 49-year-driver of the car was taken to University of Florida Health with serious injuries.
