Two Austin police officers pulled a driver from a burning pickup truck just before it exploded at a South Austin apartment complex on Monday, Austin fire officials said.
Firefighters, Austin-Travis County EMS medics and Austin police officers responded around 4:40 p.m. to The Enclave apartment complex in the 1000 block of West Stassney Lane, just west of South First Street, after receiving reports of a vehicle that was engulfed in flames with a person trapped inside.
Officers Chandler Carrera and Eddie Pineda arrived at the scene before firefighters and pulled the man out of the truck. They smashed a window to open the truck's door and dragged the man out before it the flames swallowed the vehicle, fire officials said.