Mike Reiss · @MikeReiss
20th Jan 2016 from TwitLonger
Darius Fleming tells story of rescuing woman from burning car last Thursday
"I was driving home from here, just left treatment, on Rte. 1, and there was a semi four cars ahead of me. Three cars were in between, and the semi made a real sudden stop, made a right turn, and it kind of threw the three cars behind it off. So the lady in front of me couldn’t stop and she rammed the car in front of her. That car [swerved] around the car in front of it. I was about to go around it, but I noticed the lady in front of me, she kind of was jumping around the car, passenger seat, back seat, and I noticed the car started to smoke and I didn’t think much of it. I thought she was trying to get out of the car. Then I realized the smoke was building up inside the car. So I was like, ‘I should get out of here and try to assist her a little bit.’ I tried to open the doors and it wouldn’t work. So then I was just like, ‘I have to get her out of here. I don’t know if this lady can breathe or what.’ So I started banging on the window. It wouldn’t break. So then I started to kick in the window and eventually it broke. I pulled her out and made sure she was OK. At this time a lady was coming out of an adjacent building and was assisting her, and I noticed my leg was bleeding pretty bad, so I said, ‘I should probably get out of here.’ Came back here [to the stadium] and got it bandaged up a little bit and then went to the hospital and did the rest of the work [22 stitches].”