After helping to pull a man from a burning vehicle near his home, Jamie Foxx insists he’s no hero.
“I don’t look at it as heroic, I just look at is like, I just had to do something,” Foxx told reporters on Tuesday, outside his Los Angeles-area home.
On Monday night, Brett Kyle was driving near Jamie’s home in Hidden Valley (just north of Los Angeles), when his vehicle veered into a drainage ditch, hit a pipe and concrete casing and rolled multiple times before bursting into flames.
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Luckily for Kyle, Foxx – along with an unnamed witness – were there to help.
“I heard the crash and I heard someone yelling, so I get in my car and I come down and call 911. When I get here, the truck is over on its side and it’s in flames,” Foxx explained, as Kyle’s father stood next to him after the two met privately following the accident – a moment which the actor captured on Instagram.
“I tried to get something to open [the door] because it’s on its side… luckily, a guy pulls up… and he has EMT scissors. We hit the window, we clear the glass, I climb in and I tried to [undo] his seatbelt, but he’s hovered over … so I grab the scissors and cut the seatbelt, but it’s on his neck,” the Oscar winner continued. “In my mind, [I thought] ‘If the flames come in, I’ll leave.’ But we cut it off his neck and as the flames do come into the cabin, l lean back… and it hit his legs, which made him extend… and when he extends, he extends out of the cabin. We pulled him out.
“As we pulled him out, within five seconds later, the truck goes up [in flames]. But we were over here in the grass – and we’re celebrating,” a relieved Foxx said.
Following the crash, Kyle was transported to a local area hospital for his injuries and was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol. Per CHP, the collision is still under investigation.
As for his conversation with Kyle’s father, the actor said it was a simple message.
“I just told him, I said listen, ‘God had your son’ and we’re good now,” Foxx recounted, with the man’s father at his side. “It all worked out the right way.”
— Eric Anderson
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