The sound that woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning was so loud that he assumed it came from inside his house. As he got up to1, he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from 2. Through his bedroom window, he spied a tree surrounded by 3 about 500 yards away. A 4 wrapped the tree's base, its engine on fire.
5, Languell grabbed buckets of water and ran to the crash site. The car was6 nearly in two. No one should have7this crash, and yet there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, his terrified face pressed 8 the driver's side window, in visible 9. Languell tried 10 the fire with his buckets of water, but with no 11. "That was really awful. When the flame got into the front seats, I 12 I had to get him out of there," he told WAGM-TV.
In an act that a police report described as showing "13disregard for his own safety", Languell opened the back door of the car and 14 in. "That's when I noticed how15 his legs were." Using a pocketknife he'd had with him, he16Thompson's seat belt. Then, he 17 the teen out of a back window and dragged him to 18 "before the entire car exploded", the police stated.
Languell thinks about that day often. Displaying the sort of empathy (感同身受) that 19 him to help, he told WAGM-TV, "My 20 goes out to 'Thompson'. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so directly."
