VIDEO: A Methow Valley woman was nearing the end of a 1,500-mile road trip early Saturday when she carried out a heroic highway rescue.
Candice Burt, 39, of Twisp came upon a one-car rollover along Highway 17 near Soap Lake just after 1 a.m., with the driver trapped inside and the car on fire. Candice called 911 and pulled the driver from the wreck, just before the vehicle — a 2005 Acura TL lying on its passenger side — went up in flames.
“I couldn’t see into the car because it was filled with smoke, and there was fire in the grass around it, and on the underside of the car,” Burt said Monday.
Still on the phone with emergency dispatchers, Burt pounded on the car windows, tried and failed to pull the driver door open, and finally snapped the sunroof off with her bare hands and tugged the driver out, once he had regained consciousness and unfastened the seatbelt that held him suspended behind the wheel.