By Elliott Jones
Treasure Coast Newspapers
MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. — A car that crashed along Kanner Highway early Saturday evening burst into flames and exploded, just after a deputy and off-duty firefighter got the injured driver and passenger out of vehicle, according to reports.
The vehicle went off the highway and hit a pole in some woods about 5:19 p.m. Saturday in the 6800 block of South Kanner Highway, near Southeast Salerno Road, said Martin County Fire Rescue spokesman Doug Killane.
The crash was because of a medical episode, he said.
Sheriff’s Deputy David Yun intervened when he saw people running toward the accident. By then smoke and flames were coming from the vehicle’s front end and an off-duty Miramar firefighter was getting the driver, a woman, out of the vehicle. Within seconds, smoke and flames appeared inside the vehicle, making it difficult to see inside, according to a Martin County Sheriff’s report.
Yun ran to the other side of the vehicle and pulled out the passenger, a man. Then the whole vehicle went up in flames. Martin County Fire Rescue put out the fire that included grass near the vehicle.
An off-duty nurse assisted the victims until paramedics arrived.
Names of the man and the woman, the Miramar firefighter and the nurse were not immediately available.
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