Off-duty NM Firefighter Rescues Two from Burning Truck

July 4, 2017
Off-duty Roswell firefighter Carlos Garcia found a furniture delivery truck that flipped and was on fire.

An off-duty firefighter jumped into action Friday and helped pull two men from a truck that overturned and caught fire in Roswell.

Carlos Garcia heard a loud noise outside his father's auto-body shop when he discovered the accident.

A pickup truck struck a furniture delivery truck and flipped it, according to KRQE.com. Two men were trapped inside the delivery truck that burst into flames.

Garcia and another man were able to free the men trapped inside the truck. 

The driver of the pickup died in the collision. 

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