VIDEO: A Greater Naples firefighter says he was at the right place at the right time after coming across a ravaging car fire. He jumped into action, used his training and saved the driver. It all happened during a hunting trip on the east coast of the state.
When firefighter Lt. Robert Walczak with Greater Naples Fire Rescue District isn’t fighting fire, he likes to hunt. Last Saturday, he invited two old buddies from the station on a whim.
“For some odd reason we spent the day together,” Walczak said. “We hadn’t gone hunting together in three years?”
“So we were actually leaving,” Walczak said. “Another hunter came back and said there was a rollover, and he believes someone is dead in the vehicle.”
The driver was alive but badly injured and trapped inside a car on fire along U.S. Route 27 in Palm Beach County.