Man Rescues Disabled Woman Just Before Her Car Burns
Published: May 30, 2007
A disabled woman was rescued from her car moments before it burst into flames in a Greenville County a high school parking lot on Thursday.
About 2 p.m., the woman, who uses a wheelchair, was waiting for her son in the parking lot of Woodmont High School.
As smoke began to pour from underneath the woman’s car, Jason Garrett ran to the woman’s aid.
Garrett said, “I was pointing toward her and saying, ‘You need to get out of your car. You need to get out of your car, because if you don’t — there’s fire up under your driver’s side.’ That’s when she opened her door and screamed, ‘I can’t get out, I can’t get out I’m paralyzed.’”
Garrett said that he helped her get out of the car, into her wheelchair and away from the car.
“When I ran toward her car, I got her to unlock the back door so I could get to the wheel chair … I got her into the seat and got her out of harm’s way and it wasn’t maybe a minute or two later it was engulfed in flames,” he said.
School surveillance video shows the car bursting into flame just a few moments later.
Garrett said he was at Woodmont to pick up his brother.
School staff members tried to fight the flames with fire extinguishers and firefighters put out the fire when they arrived soon after.
No one was injured and students were instructed to stay inside the school during the fire.
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