See Video of a Man Rescuing His Neighbor From a Burning Truck
Rescued man's father thankful "we didn't go to a funeral."
— -- A Colorado father is thankful "that we didn't go to a funeral" after a neighbor pulled his incapacitated son from a smoldering truck in a video shown on a local television station.
"Faith was in our direction," Kenneth Fulton said after the neighbor, Steve McCallister, pulled his son, Dave Fulton, from a pickup truck in his driveway before it burst into flames in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Friday morning.
Surveillance footage of the act aired on KKTV in Colorado Springs.
Fulton suffered an epileptic seizure and passed out with his foot on the gas pedal, which left the truck’s engine revving out of control, the station reported and Kenneth Fulton confirmed. The revving engine eventually caught fire.
"If he hadn't been there I would've got stuck in there," said Dave Fulton to KKTV.
"Right place, right time," McCallister told the station. "All I cared about was that he was alright. Everything else is replaceable."
The Colorado Springs Fire Department arrived at the scene at 9:11 a.m. and put out the fire within three minutes, Fire Capt. Steven Oswald told ABC News.
Responders treated a man approximately 40 years old for injuries related to the accident, Oswald said, adding that he could not disclose the man's identity or the nature of his injuries because of privacy laws.
McCallister and Fulton were not immediately available for comment to ABC News.
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