A Palm Springs man rescued a man from a burning car in Riverside after a wreck resulting from a street race. It was all captured on video.
Santiago Portillo, from Palm Springs, began recording the accident with his phone – but noticed there was a man inside the burning car, reports ABC 7. Portillo then put the phone down and went to rescue the man.
“I saw an arm hanging out the window and a sweater,” Portillo told KMIR. “I knew there was a human life in there. I just wasn’t going to witness that guy getting roasted.”
Firefighters and paramedics arrived a short time later to the crash site on Indiana Avenue near Tyler Street.
The driver suffered a severe laceration to his head and his leg was also injured, according to authorities.
Police are searching for a second driver who was in the street race who sped away after the crash.
Portillo, who works at the Riverside Mattress Showroom, does not consider himself a hero.
“I’m not a hero, I’m just a human being,” Portillo said to KMIR. “I’ll do it all over again for anybody.”
