A Mesquite police officer is being recognized for his quick thinking after dash and body cameras captured the heart-stopping moments he pulled a woman from a burning car.<\/p>\n
Officer Tyler Ingram knew he only had seconds to respond. It was just after midnight on September 30. He\u2019d been watching traffic along I-30 when he noticed a commotion.<\/p>\n
There had been a single-vehicle crash, and the driver was still inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I got closer, I could hear a female screaming inside,\u201d Ingram said.<\/p>\n
The woman was injured and clearly in distress. Officer Ingram says her leg also appeared to be pinned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was at the driver\u2019s door, the flames were starting to crawl from the front to the passenger compartment,\u201d he said. \u201cI tried to pull her up. It took me a minute to find the door handle. It was bent so I just bent it open a little bit more and was able to pull her out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other officers arrived at the scene and carried the woman a safe distance from the car. Officer Ingram then applied a tourniquet to her leg.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe answer a lot of action-packed calls here, but this was more like a movie scene,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Still, Ingram said it\u2019s what he signed up for each day he wears the uniform.<\/p>\n
Police said the woman was charged with driving while intoxicated. She is expected to be ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mesquite police officer is being recognized for his quick thinking after dash and body cameras captured the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,1295],"class_list":["post-8318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-mesquite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318","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=8318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}