BWC Video: Officer and Firefighter Rescue Woman from Burning Truck
Body-worn video shows when a motor officer smashed the window of a burning pickup truck to give the driver an avenue to escape. The officer broke the window, then a firefighter helped pull the woman to safety.
by Staff
February 21, 2025
Motor Officer Brian Larison approaches a burning truck to smash a window so the female driver can escape from the wrecked vehicle.
Credit:
Chandler Police video screenshot
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The Chandler Police Department (Arizona) released body-worn video of when one of its motorcycle officers helped save a woman from an overturned, burning pickup truck following a crash earlier this week.
The video, dated Feb. 18, documented when Motor Officer Brian Larison arrived at the interstate crash scene with the pickup already on fire and flames rapidly growing. The truck had been struck by a concrete truck before overturning onto its side and catching fire.
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“Can you get out?” he yells to the pickup’s driver.
As a bystander tried to break the driver’s window, Larison rushed forward and used his baton to smash the window and rake away the broken glass.
“Get out, get out,” he tells the woman.
As Larison backs away, the truck shifts from its side, falling back upright onto its wheels.
“Get her out of there,” the officer yells on video.
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He turns to a firefighter, telling him, “Get her out dude.”
The firefighter, Peoria Fire & Medical Firefighter Asa Paguia, helped the woman climb out feet first through the window as Larison is heard asking if anyone else is inside the burning truck.
Yesterday, the woman was reunited with both Larison and Paquia. Both had been on their way to work when they ran across the crash scene.
As the three were reunited, a tearful Aymee Ruiz hugged Larison. The Chandler Police Department shared a video of the reunion on its social media page.
“My heart felt full seeing their faces again,” Ruiz said. “How do you say thank you like that. What do you say besides thank you. Absolutely no words for it.”
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“What they did was heroic, courageous, just brave. It’s just insane,” she added.
The driver, Aymee Ruiz, was reunited with Motor Officer Brian Larison and Peoria Fire & Medical Firefighter Asa Paguia, the two men who saved her from her burning pickup truck Feb. 18.
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