The Texas Department of Public Safety released dramatic video of a trooper rescuing a trapped motorist from a burning vehicle earlier this month.
Trooper Cody Durham was on a routine patrol, traveling southbound on the Dallas Tollway near Spring Creek Parkway in Plano shortly after 2:20 a.m. on Jan. 9, when he saw smoke rising from a wreck on the northbound side of the highway.
“I took the nearest exit possible and turned around and got there as quick as I could and by the time I arrived the vehicle had caught on fire,” Durham said in a video released by DPS, which also shows his body-camera and dashboard-camera videos from that night…