Beach safety wants to find good Samaritan who helped rescue 4 in Ponce Inlet
County officials took to Facebook on Tuesday to ask for the public’s help in tracking down and recognizing a Good Samaritan who helped rescue four people, including two children, stranded on the jetties at Ponce Inlet on June 15.
:strip_exif(true):strip_icc(true):no_upscale(true):quality(65)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-gmg.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OK3NN6EWFRHOPMW5GKKS6NZXJM.jpg)
Good Samaritan jumps into action as man struggles to escape burning pickup truck
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A man was rescued from a burning pickup truck Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 95 by a Good Samaritan with an iPhone in hand. The heroic display went down in the northbound lanes of I-95 just south of the Dolphin Expressway, according to WPLG. Jim Angulo said he saw the flames and smoke from his driver’s side window, and noticed a man struggling to get out of the burning truck. I can’t!’” Angulo recalled. The man in the pickup truck, who has not yet been identified, was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital.