{"id":379226,"date":"2026-07-20T02:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379226\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T02:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:54:08","slug":"texas-cop-saves-driver-from-burning-car-moments-before-it-goes-up-in-flames-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379226\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas cop saves driver from burning car moments before it goes up in flames: video"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brave Texas cop saved a man whose car suddenly caught fire while driving on the highway, pulling him free seconds before the vehicle went up in flames, harrowing video shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cops said the driver\u2019s Nissan Altima suddenly caught fire while he was heading down Highway 114 in Southlake on June 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cops said the driver\u2019s Nissan Altima suddenly caught fire while driving down Highway 114 in Southlake, Texas, last month. facebook\/SouthlakePublicSafet<\/p>\n

Swisher had been in the middle of dealing with an unrelated traffic stop on the highway when he was alerted to the car fire. facebook\/SouthlakePublicSafet<\/p>\n

Nail-biting footage released by the department on Wednesday shows the vehicle billowing heaps of smoke on the busy highway as it pulls over to make an emergency stop on the roadway\u2019s right shoulder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The frightening scene was immediately noticed by Southlake Police Corporal Joshua Swisher.<\/p>\n

Swisher had been in the middle of dealing with an unrelated traffic stop on the highway when he was notified of the heavily smoking car by his superiors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dashcam and bodycam footage shows Swisher pulling his car up and running down the busy highway to the smoking car \u2014 which almost immediately begins to catch fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI could not even see inside the vehicle,\u201d Swisher told Fox 4<\/a>. \u201cThe only thing I saw was hands, and it was the driver trying to get his door open from the inside.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI could not even see inside the vehicle,\u201d Swisher told Fox 4. \u201cThe only thing I saw was hands, and it was the driver trying to get his door open from the inside.\u201d facebook\/SouthlakePublicSafet<\/p>\n

Dark smoke fills the car, making the driver nearly invisible, the clip shows. <\/p>\n

The heroic cop tries opening the car\u2019s door by grabbing the handle \u2013 but it flies right off, trapping the driver inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a desperate measure, Swisher then tells the trapped man to \u201ccome out through the window\u201d as he smashes it open with a window breaker, according to bodycam video.<\/p>\n

Video shows him pulling the man out the window to safety and making sure there\u2019s no one else inside right as huge flames burst out of the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a desperate measure, Swisher then tells the trapped man to \u201ccome out through the window\u201d as he cracks it with a window breaker. facebook\/SouthlakePublicSafet<\/p>\n

Video shows him pulling the man to safety and making sure there\u2019s no one else inside right as huge flames burst out of the car.\u00a0 facebook\/SouthlakePublicSafet<\/p>\n

The driver of the burning Nissan did not suffer any injuries, though the cop had some arm hair burned away, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Swisher was awarded the Southlake Police Department\u2019s second-highest honor for the quick rescue, receiving the Meritorious Conduct Award, My Southlake News reported.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The courageous cop told Fox that he was just doing what any good officer in the department would do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I speak for every Southlake officer when I say that if anybody had been put in that same situation, same circumstances, any other officer would have done the same thing,\u201d Swisher said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brave Texas cop saved a man whose car suddenly caught fire while driving on the highway, pulling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3002,672,9983,27,29,28,734,4501],"class_list":["post-379226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-fires","tag-police","tag-rescues","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news","tag-viral-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}