when we pulled him out and got him to the middle of the street away from the bike, he was on fire on his legs. solecki takes off his shirt and stamps out rivera s burning legs as co-workers joe benedict and stephen boon arrive to help. john is still trying to put him out with his shirt, and joe, joe just looking to do something to help out. i handed hip the fire extinguisher. i quick pulled it out of his hands and pulled the pin and started extinguishing the fire on walter. when i seen that the fire was out on him, i don t know what made me go over to try to put the fire out on the motorcycle, but that s what i tried to do. rivera regains consciousness as boon and solecki pull him even further from the wreck. i kept trying to get up, like, trying to get up from the
a security camera captures the driver waiting for traffic to clear as walter rivera rides his motorcycle down the same street only a few hundred feet away. there s a hill, and going over the top of the hill is kind of a blind spot. i didn t see her until the last minute, so there was nothing i could do. sparks fly as the helmetless rivera drops his bike to the ground and slides into the back wheel of the car. the motorcycle goes up in flames as the car pulls over. rivera lays unconscious and on fire next to the burning wreckage. so i was laying there burning for 30 seconds, and there was a crowd of people outside. you can understand, people were scared it was going to explode. a car approaches the flaming motorcycle and then turns away. but john solecki hears the accident from inside his office and races out to help. he and another man pull rivera away from the burning motorcycle. flames were really intense.
as boon and solecki pull him even further from the wreck. i kept trying to get up, like, trying to get up from the street. i broke my right femur bone. it was shattered. so there was no way of me getting up, but i guess i was in shock, so i kept trying, kept trying. they had to literally hold me down. minutes later, fire and rescue crews arrive to extinguish the motorcycle and take rivera to the hospital. he spends three months recuperating there from extensive burns and multiple broken bones. but it turned out a lot better than i was expecting. you know, i thought i wasn t going to walk. that s how bad it was.
transportation offices until a car starts to make an illegal u-turn on a busy street. a security camera captures the driver waiting for traffic to clear as walter rivera rides his motorcycle down the same street only a few hundred feet away. there s a hill, and going over the top of the hill is kind of a blind spot. i didn t see her until the last minute, so there was nothing i could do. sparks fly as the helmetless rivera drops his bike to the ground and slides into the back wheel of the car. the motorcycle goes up in flames as the car pulls over. rivera lays unconscious and on fire next to the burning wreckage. so i was laying there burning for 30 seconds, and there was a crowd of people outside. but you can understand, people were scared it was going to explode. a car approaches the flaming motorcycle and then turns away. but john solecki hears the accident from inside his office and races out to help.
he and another man pull rivera away from the burning motorcycle. flames were really intense. when we pulled him out and got him to the middle of the street away from the bike, he was on fire on his legs. solecki takes off his shirt and stamps out rivera s burning legs as co-workers joe benedict and stephen boon arrive to help. john is still trying to put him out with his shirt, and joe, joe just looking to do something to help out. that s when i handed him the fire extinguisher. i quick pulled it out of his hands and pulled the pin and started extinguishing the fire on walter. when i seen that the fire was out on him, i don t know what made me go over to try to put the fire out on the motorcycle, but that s what i tried to do. rivera regains consciousness