VIDEO Jamie Foxx talks about incredible fiery wreck rescue, meets driver’s father
Actor Jamie Foxx talked with reporters yesterday about rescuing a man from a fiery car crash. Joining Foxx in front of the cameras was the driver’s father, who was emotional and nearly at a loss for words as he tried to relay his appreciation for Foxx’s actions.
Foxx explained that he heard yelling from the street by his home in Hidden Valley, California. He drove down to the scene and found a truck turned over on its side and in flames. While Foxx was trying to figure a way to get inside the cabin, someone else pulled up who happened to have EMT scissors. Together they smashed the glass and cleared the shards out.
Foxx says he then climbed into the cabin and tried to release 32-year-old Brett Kyle’s seatbelt, but the driver was folded over with his weight, and neck, against the restraint. Foxx then cut the seatbelt near Kyle’s neck.
What came next sounds like something out of a Hollywood movie–but it was very much real, and someone’s life was on the line:
“As the flames do come into the cabin I lean back but I think what it did, it hit his legs which made him extend….He extends out of the cabin, we pull him out, as we pull him out within five to ten seconds later the truck goes up.”
Reporter: Jamie, it’s one thing to be a hero in the movies. What’s it like to be a real hero?
Foxx: I don’t look at it as heroic. I just look at it as you just had to do something.
Brad Kyle, the father of the driver, was moved to tears as he tried to express his gratefulness for what Foxx had done. “He didn’t have to do a thing. I think we all hope that we could do something when the time is there but the question is, ‘Do we act or do we fear our own lives?’ And he did not,” Kyle said.
Foxx shared an Instagram photo of the pair embracing. For the caption he wrote, “Met the father of the young man from last night today. This is all that matters. That a man, a son, a brother’s life was spared last night. God had his arms wrapped around all of us…No heroes…Just happy fathers.”
