Scott Frye helped to save Steven R. Marques from burning, Andover, Massachusetts, April 29, 2012. Marques, 61, was trapped in the driver’s seat of his sport utility vehicle after an accident in which the vehicle left the highway, went down an embankment, and, overturning onto its driver’s side, caught fire on its undercarriage. Another motorist, Frye, 45, a state trooper from a neighboring state, witnessed the accident. He stopped at the scene and responded to the vehicle, joining another man who had witnessed the accident and responded. The men pulled on Marques through the broken-out windshield but could not free him, as he was trapped in the wreckage by his legs. Thinking to release Marques’s seat, Frye then climbed head first into the burning vehicle through the windshield opening and, extending his body over Marques, located the lever securing the seat. He released the seat, enabling him to free Marques’s legs. Frye then grasped Marques by an arm and, as he backed from the car pulling him, the other man grasped Marques’s other arm, and together the men pulled Marques to safety. Flames grew shortly to engulf the car. Injured in the accident, Marques required hospital treatment, as did Frye, for smoke inhalation and a cut to one knee
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