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He rushed to his patrol SUV to get a glass-breaking tool, ran
back across the interstate to the woman’s car and used the tool
to knock several holes in the driver’s side window. Her feet
then popped out.
“Get out, get out, get out,” Berry said. The woman, whose hair
was on fire, can be heard crying. The officer grabbed her legs
and pulled her through the broken window.
She was brought in critical condition to a burn center and is
expected to survive. Berry, who tried putting out the fire with
his hands and finally stopped it with an extinguisher, suffered
a hand injury during the rescue.
The woman is the daughter of a Goodyear firefighter. “As ironic
as that is, I would have done the same thing for anyone else,
any community member,” Berry told reporters Wednesday.
After the woman was pulled from the burning car, police say
Berry put out flares on the interstate to make sure there
weren’t other collisions.
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