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Fire officials said the driver was alive but was being treated for life-threatening injuries.
Neighbors rescued a driver from a fiery car crash in Revere early Saturday morning, WCVB reported.
A fire official on scene told WCVB the accident happened around 3 a.m. on Revere Beach Boulevard.
Video taken from security camera footage obtained by NBC10 Boston shows the car accelerating and crashing into a wall, immediately catching fire. In the video, neighbors are seen grabbing their garden hoses to put out the flames and opening the car door to pull the driver from the wreck. Then one of the bystanders administers CPR to the driver as police arrive.
“We did teamwork. Our intention was, and all we cared about, was to get him out alive,” one of the witnesses told WCVB. “Because if we left him for another five or ten minutes, he would be dead.”
She said she and her neighbors used a dumbbell to break the car window and scissors to cut the driver’s seat belt.
The fire official told WCVB that the driver and a rescuer were being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
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