Five men are being hailed as heroes by the Ontario Provincial Police after they rescued a man from a burning vehicle on a Toronto-area highway earlier this week.
On Monday, OPP responded to reports of a vehicle on fire on the westbound QEW at Cawthra in Mississauga.
Video of the incident, tweeted by the OPP on Wednesday night, shows a vehicle that appears to be swerving as smoke is seen billowing from it.
Eventually, the car crashed into a ditch and the fire started to spread.
Police said five men who saw the incident stopped and rushed to help the driver escape from the burning vehicle.
In the video, the men can be heard shouting “Get out of here”.
A man is seen using a hammer to break the driver’s side window to free the driver.
The men were eventually able to open the door and pull the 36-year-old driver out of the vehicle to safety.
The OPP thanked five men for rescuing a man from a burning vehicle on the QEW in Mississauga on Monday. (Twitter/@OPP_HSD)
Moments later, the vehicle appears to burst into flames.
The OPP thanked the men for their heroic efforts to save the driver.
“A 36-year-old Toronto man who experienced a medical episode is alive thanks to the heroic efforts of five men who risked their lives when the vehicle caught fire with the driver still inside. They opened the driver’s door to rescue the driver,” the OPP tweeted.
The driver was not injured.
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