i couldn't tell if anybody was in it or not. >> i think there might be. it looks like there was a crash. i got a window out of it but i can't get the smoke out. >> as brinkley plans his next move, another officer, clint hertz arrives on the scene. >> clint could see some body form in there. so then it was a matter of how we were going to get them out. >> the man is unconscious in the driver's seat of the car. hertz opens the passenger door while brinkley sprints to the driver's side. >> flames were already to the driver's door handle. i can't go in here and do it safely. we've got to get them out of the passenger side of the car. >> officer hertz unlatches the man's seat belt and pulls him across the passenger seat. the man is alive but suffers from severe smoke inhalation. >> i've seen dead people that look better. he was gray. his tongue was hanging out of his mouth. i thought he was dead. >> brinkley stays with the victim while hertz races back into the raging inferno. >> we've got one out. we don't know if there's anybody else in there or not.