As KRIS 6 News previously reported , Bryce Ballard went to start his car to start it up like any other day, the next thing he knew, he was engulfed in flames.
“I was actually getting into my car to get my wife and I lunch, and I realized that I smelled something burning,” Ballard said.
In what Ballard called a freak accident, he said the tank of his car exploded.
“I spoke to one of the fire investigators,” he said. “He [fire investigator] said everything sounds about right. Looks like the fuel tank did expand and explode.”
Tony Jaramillo Ballard was still covered in flames after getting out of the car.
“Both of my arms were on fire. I saw fire all over my legs. My shorts were on fire,” Ballard recalled.
After quickly stopping, dropping, and rolling, the fire on his body was put out, but it soon spread to the townhome itself.
Without a second thought, he quickly ran upstairs to get his wife out.
“They couldn’t really wrap their mind around the fact that I had so much that I was able to come from such a deep fire and go upstairs and get my wife out of the house,” Ballard said.