Army Football player Lary picket juniorOn Sunday morning, a person rescued from a burning vehicle.
The picket was traveling with a second year cadets at the service academy, when he saw a crashed vehicle surrounded by power lines on Route 9W in Fort Montgomery, New York, about five miles south of Army’s West Point Campus.
Fort Montgomery Fire Department said on Sunday that the vehicle was A utility collided with the poleElectric lines to fall to the ground.
Video posted by his family The social media show picket and his father picked up the unknown person from the vehicle and took the vehicle safely away from the accident scene shortly before the vehicle burst into flames.
US military academy said on Sunday A social media post This is the “proud of brave works” by the picket and his father.
Army Athletic Director Tom Theodorcice couple He picket and his father “give an example of the values we love, steps in a moment of crisis to save a life.”
Larry Picket Senior told several media outlets that the family was returning to West Point late Saturday after going out for dinner in New York City. A redshirt Freshman, a redsirt from Rale in Northern Carolina, ran towards the vehicle on seeing the scene of the accident.
“There was no discussion. My son just jumped into action,” the Elder Picket told the rale-based ABC 11. “He mentioned his military training, and we pulled [the man] Outside. Till the police officers reached there, he took care of him on the roadside, and then the fire department reached there shortly after. ,
Picket started its college football on Friday night, in which a tackle was recorded from 30-27 in Black Nights. Overtime disturbed disadvantage To FCS rival Tarlton State,
