Heroes rescue trucker from burning tanker in Orlando

Rescuer: 'It just burst into flames'
Orlando man pulled driver from cab after tanker truck explodes on Interstate 4
By Anthony Colarossi, Orlando Sentinel

5:38 a.m. EDT, May 20, 2010
David Neel of Orlando was driving home when he spotted the tanker truck barrel into a right-lane divider wall along Interstate 4 and burst into a fireball at John Young Parkway.

"It was like watching a movie. It just burst into flames," Neel said.

He then ran up to the truck, popped open the driver's side door and found the driver.

Another motorist helped with the rescue, too.

The flaming wreck snarled eastbound traffic along I-4 for hours, but it also provided a glimpse of hometown heroism, as two motorists stopped at and pulled the truck driver from the burning rig.

"He was still moving and we snatched him out of the truck," Neel said. "He was dazed. He couldn't tell me what happened.

"Everything was just smoke and flames."

The tanker fire was extinguished a short time after the accident, and the driver suffered minor injuries, police said.
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