Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Cody Durham pulls a man to safety after rescuing him from a burning vehicle Jan. 9 on the Dallas Tollway near Spring Creek Parkway in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. See video of the dramatic rescue on www.timesrecordnews.com.

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.

I believed once I started pulling, that was going to be the only way to get him out,” Trooper Cody Durham said. “I just kept pulling and pulling until we were out of the car.”

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

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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