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(WTVM) – Two Maryland officers’ quick thinking saved a man’s life, and it was all captured on tape.
Cody Fields, one of the officers, has been dispatched to car crashes many times before. But this was a first.
“I hope there’s not somebody inside,” Fields said to himself when he approached the vehicle.
But there was. A 34-year-old man had fallen asleep and crashed along the concrete barrier of busy Interstate 495.
Fields soon got some help from veteran Officer Brian Nesbitt.
“At one point the fire was coming up underneath and hitting Officer Fields’ legs, and that’s when I said to him we have to go now or we’re going to be in trouble,” Nesbitt said. “We never took his seatbelt off, we didn’t cut it. We didn’t do anything. We just ended up pulling him out somehow.”
Neither officer was burned. Soon after wiping the soot from their faces, they realized the dashcam recorded the harrowing rescue.
They never shared this video with their superiors. It was a colleague who later put in a request that they be honored for their heroism.
They were recognized at a ceremony in March. That was also the first time they shook the hand of Rashad Isreal, the man they saved.
“I told them thank you, but they made it seem like it wasn’t no big deal to them,” Isreal said. “They were doing their job, but their job meant the world to me.”
