{"id":502251,"date":"2026-10-20T13:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502251\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:46:12","slug":"california-state-parks-officer-recounts-rescuing-woman-from-burning-car-on-highway-70-national-and-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502251\/","title":{"rendered":"California State Parks officer recounts rescuing woman from burning car on Highway 70 | National and World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/state-parks-officer-recounts-rescuing-woman-burning-car\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for updates on this story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SACRAMENTO, California (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/state-parks-officer-recounts-rescuing-woman-burning-car\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KOVR<\/a>) &#8212; 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<p>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<p>The dramatic rescue was captured on the car&#8217;s dashcam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was asking, &#8216;Please help me, I&#8217;m going to die.&#8217; Her screams were hard to describe,&#8221; Gray said.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Gray said.<\/p>\n<p>Gray said he began pulling away broken debris from the vehicle to help clear the way to the woman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back on the encounter, Gray said the timing of their arrival may have made all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seemed like divine timing really,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Please note: This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate and does not contain original CNN reporting. This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bTHE-CNN-WIRE (TM) &amp; \u00a9 2026 CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., A TIME WARNER COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Click here for updates on this story \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) &#8212; Two California State Parks officers are being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-502251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}