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# Hero of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/hero-of-the-day-2/
- Published: 2021-08-28T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-28T10:21:54.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

> “I could see the driver slumped over the steering wheel and the flames were coming in over the bonnet into his face. I tried to rouse him but couldn’t, so Erin got a fire extinguisher, but it wasn’t enough,” he said.  
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> “I thought, the only way this man is going to survive is if I put myself between him and the flames.  
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> \[…\] “It was getting quite hot – the flames were going over me and across the ceiling of the car,” Neal said.  
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> “I could see his legs were starting to steam, so I wrapped myself around his chest and face, and waited for the fire service to turn up.”  
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Sergeant Brett Neal with Governor-General The Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy.

[Read the article in full here.](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/126207286/police-officer-climbed-into-burning-car-and-covered-man-with-his-own-body?ref=goodoil.news) Comment on it on *The BFD.*