'We love each other even more now...' Says Woman Pulled from Fiery Car by FL Firefighter Boyfriend

Nov. 2, 2022
Su Hninyi and Broward Sheriff's Fire Rescue Firefighter Bryan Aparicio are recovering from serious burns suffered in the I-95 crash.

“We love each other even more now we almost lost each other,” she said. “I wouldn’t be here today. I owe him my life.”

Su Hninyi told a WPLG reporter she knows just how close she came to dying along the Florida interstate last month following a fiery crash.

She and her hero boyfriend, Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue Firefighter Bryan Aparicio are recovering from serious burns sustained in the wreck that happened after a car cut off a fuel tanker, causing it to burst into flames.

“I just get emotional over all this. I couldn’t believe we made it together. I’m so happy that everybody survived.”

She said it's still something that's hard for her to believe happened to them.

“One moment you are sitting in an Uber and the next thing you don’t know whether you are going to live,” Hninyi said. “You always see these things on TV.”

Aparicio said he couldn't let her die, returned to the car and pulled her through the back window. “I was sitting in the car thinking I was going to die,” she said.

Video taken after the crash shows the couple of four years walking away from the flaming wreckage along I-95 in Delray Beach. “The moment we got over the barricade, the car exploded behind us,” she said.

The two were headed to an airport to leave on a cruise. “We love each other even more now.  We almost lost each other,” she said. “I wouldn’t be here today. I owe him my life.”

Aparicio has significant second and third degree burns on his face, head and arms while she has burns on her legs and arms.

The driver of the Uber, Carlos Molina, 61, a beloved husband and father, suffered burns Molina over 35 percent of his body.

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