Troy White rescued a 3-year-old girl from a burning vehicle, Antioch, California, May 21, 2024. The girl remained strapped in her car seat in the back of a burning sport utility vehicle after it crashed and flipped over on the shoulder of Highway 4. White was driving by with his girlfriend and his daughter when they saw the SUV on fire. He pulled over and ran to the vehicle, which lay on its passenger side with the undercarriage burning near the engine compartment. The girl’s mother, the driver, had climbed out of the driver’s side window and jumped to the ground just as White ran up and she yelled for help as he approached. White ran around the back of the SUV and jumped into the broken driver’s side rear window to reach the girl, who dangled in her car seat with her foot against the pavement through the broken window. With his lower body outside the vehicle and his upper body upside down, he unhooked the car seat belt, grabbed her, lifted her out of the SUV and carried her to safety. Several minutes later, fire engulfed the SUV and it exploded. The girl suffered minor cuts to her face. White was not hurt.
2024-0000195-10484Troy White
Brentwood, CA