A Texas man paralyzed below the waist is pulled from a burning car by a heroic woman – then makes it her mission to track down a previously unknown Samaritan so she can thank him.
Dennis Brown, of Dallas, praised Tammi Arrington after the Mississippi resident, who was visiting friends in the Lone Star State, jumped into action when Brown’s rental car burst into flames Sunday morning.
He dragged the 58-year-old man from the car before flames completely engulfed the ride, which was equipped with hand controls that allowed him to drive.
“It kind of made me realize the kind of danger I was in,” Brown told The Post Wednesday night. “If it wasn’t for Tammi, I don’t know how I would have gotten out or how close I would have been to burn or not be here today if it wasn’t for Tammi.”
The two were able to reconnect Wednesday morning after Brown regretfully forgot to ask her name shortly after the terrifying ordeal.
Dennis Brown’s rental car caught fire when Tammi Arrington stepped in to save him. FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, /YouTube
Arrington, 42, insisted to The Post on Wednesday night that he was in the right place at the right time when he saw the car on fire.
Instead of going with his friend to Costco that morning, he decided to stay in the new house he had just helped his friend move into.
When he looked out the front window, he saw part of the car on fire.
Mississippi resident Tammi Arrington happened to be visiting a friend in Texas the day she saved Dennis Brown.Tammi Murrah Arrington?Facebook
He rushes out and sees all the doors closed, at first believing them to be empty.
“I happened to see his head move a little bit from the headrest and then I realized there was someone there,” Arrington said.
He ran to the car and opened the door, urging Brown to escape the fire.
Dennis Brown’s car was seen when it suddenly burst into flames in Dallas, Texas. FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, /YouTube
“He said ‘get out of the car,'” said Brown, who was paralyzed after he was shot at age 22. “I said ‘I can’t I’m in a wheelchair.'”
He originally grabbed the wheelchair, but soon realized he didn’t have enough time to put it down.
Arrington, just 5-foot-3, said he dragged Brown out and then put him in a wheelchair after it was set up.
Dennis Brown thanked and praised Tammi Arrington, saying if it wasn’t for her, he wouldn’t have known if he “would have gotten out.” FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, /YouTube
Both moved away from the car fire until the local fire department extinguished the fire.
Brown said in all the chaos, he never got his name.
Although Brown’s loved ones went later to thank Arrington at the home he visited, they never caught his name either.
Tammi Arrington said she saw “the head move slightly from the headrest” as she approached the vehicle, realizing Dennis Brown was still in the car. Tammi Murrah Arrington?Facebook
When she tried to visit, no one was home and Arrington was gone, she said.
“I didn’t say the thanks I deserved,” Brown said.
Brown agreed to be interviewed by Fox 4 in hopes that it would return to the mystery of the good Samaritan.
“I want to appreciate him for his heroic actions,” he told the station. “He went into danger to save me. Drag me out. I want to thank him.”
Arrington’s friend saw the news and told him about it.
He contacted Fox 4 and the station connected the two.
Dennis Brown and Tammi Arrington were able to connect over the call, where Brown finally gave a well-deserved thank you. FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, /YouTube
“The first thing I said was ‘Tammi, this is Dennis, the guy in the wheelchair,'” Brown said. “We started laughing man, we just started laughing.”
Brown plans to take Arrington and his friend out to dinner when he’s in town with Brown’s appreciative mother Julia.
But Arrington doesn’t think he deserves, if any, credit for his heroism.
“I’m glad he’s okay,” Arrington said, then added. “Any human reaction – I think if they saw that they would do the same thing.”
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