Trooper Cody Durham was on a routine patrol on the Dallas Tollway when he noticed a crashed vehicle engulfed in flames.

Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Cody Durham acted quickly to rescue a driver who was trapped inside a burning vehicle after a serious collision on the Dallas Tollway near Spring Creek Parkway on Jan. 9, according to a media release.

The agency said Trooper Cody Durham was on a routine patrol near Spring Creek Parkway on Jan. 9 at about 2:20 a.m. when he saw smoke emitting from a single-vehicle crash. As Durham approached it, he could see the driver trapped inside the blazing vehicle, according to a Friday news release.

In a bodycam video released by DPS, you can see Trooper Durham immediately opening the back passenger door, entering the smoke-filled vehicle and beginning to pull the driver out until he was able to remove him from the vehicle and pull him safely away from the fire.

A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper heroically rescued a driver from a burning vehicle in a dramatic scene captured on dashcam. The incident occurred just after

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A DPS trooper in Plano rescued a driver from a burning vehicle after an accident early Jan. 9, shown in this video released by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

A Texas DPS trooper pulled a man from a burning vehicle in a dramatic rescue. Texas Department of Public Safety Courtesy/DPS