Two California State Parks officers are being praised for rescuing a woman trapped inside a burning, overturned car along Highway 70 in Butte County.<\/p>\n
Officers Ryan Gray and Dylan Ayache were on their way to a training facility in Sacramento on Friday morning when they came across the fiery crash. The woman was still inside the vehicle when the officers rushed to help.<\/p>\n
The dramatic rescue was captured on the car’s dashcam.<\/p>\n
“She was asking, ‘Please help me, I’m going to die.’ Her screams were hard to describe,” Gray said.<\/p>\n
Gray described the scene as dangerous, with smoke and flames pouring from the overturned vehicle and making it difficult to see the woman.<\/p>\n
“It was hard to breathe. It was hard to see. And for her, I imagine it was ten-fold. It was much more difficult because she was trapped in all that smoke,” Gray said.<\/p>\n
Gray said he began pulling away broken debris from the vehicle to help clear the way to the woman.<\/p>\n
“And eventually her and I coordinated to get her into a position where she was able to reach her arm out of the window, and I was able to get her out,” he said.<\/p>\n
Looking back on the encounter, Gray said the timing of their arrival may have made all the difference.<\/p>\n
“It seemed like divine timing really,” he said.<\/p>\n
The driver, a 46-year-old woman from Plumas Lake, was conscious when officers pulled her from the burning vehicle. She was taken to a hospital and released later that same day.<\/p>\n
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