Firefighters are crediting an off-duty Seattle police officer for pulling a crash victim from a burning car Monday evening on I-90.
The crash happened just before 6 p.m. when someone in a truck didn't notice traffic had stopped on eastbound I-90 west of State Route 18. The driver rear-ended a car, which caused a chain reaction with several other vehicles, according to Battalion Chief Glenn Huffman with Eastside Fire and Rescue.
The truck and a car caught fire in the crash, and one person was briefly trapped inside the burning car. An off-duty Seattle police officer happened to be stopped at the crash scene and pulled the victim from the wreckage, according to Huffman.
"An SPD officer was first on scene. He was off duty and heading home when he came across the accident. He actually retrieved someone out of one of the burning vehicles," Huffman said.