If you witnessed a horrific crash while driving during rush hour, would you sit back and take pictures of the scene, call 911, or would you jump from your own car and risk your life to save a total stranger?
When faced with this exact situation, one brave Australian man named Athen Barnaby, who was wearing only shorts, a t-shirt, and sandals, didn’t hesitate to climb up onto the burning wreckage from a bad truck accident, and pull the injured 60-year-old driver out from a truck that was about to explode.
“I didn’t feel the heat much at all, I think it was just the adrenaline. I had my thick thongs on, and I just climbed straight up wherever I could find the angle,” Barnaby said.
“We were all yelling at him, saying, ‘mate, you got to get out of there, this thing is going to blow,” Barnaby told The Today Show. “He was yelling back saying he couldn’t see, he couldn’t see, he managed to get himself out of the window”.
Barnaby later received an award for his bravery, and he explained his training as a student pilot helped him stay calm during the emergency.
“The moment when all your life lessons of valuing life, caring for family and others all come into play when you have to make a sound decision of whether you put your life at risk to save another,” Barnaby wrote in a Facebook post.
Watch the entire video below to see the incredible moment this good Samaritan risked his own life to save a total stranger.
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