By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
When Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent John DeJohn was driving home from a fishing trip in Corpus Christi, Texas, he spotted an SUV that had crashed in a field.
DeJohn, of HSI Houston, sprinted to the vehicle and discovered it was on fire.
The special agent found a young girl screaming for help, pinned underneath the SUV. Her mouth was bleeding and she appeared to have a broken leg.
DeJohn and others who stopped lifted the vehicle and rescued the child.
As the fire was spreading, a passerby cut the seatbelt of the unconscious driver, and the group pushed the car back on its wheels to rescue the bleeding woman.
“We commend Special Agent DeJohn for the heroic action taken to save others on a moment’s notice,” Mark Dawson, Special Agent in Charge of HSI Houston, said in a press release from ICE. “This is a testament to HSI special agents everywhere who are willing put their lives in jeopardy every day to help others.”
DeJohn said, “You don’t ever want to be a hero, because that means someone’s life is in peril.”
