Feel Good Story: A Beautiful Mississippi Angel Rescues Paralyzed Dallas Man From Burning Car

 

The story from The NY Post:

Arrington, 42, insisted to The Post Wednesday night she was simply in the right place at the right time when she saw the car on fire.

Instead of going with her friend to Costco that morning, she decided to stay behind in the new home she just helped her pal move into.

When she looked out the front window, she saw part of the car in flames.

Mississippi resident Tammi Arrington happened to be visiting a friend in Texas the day she rescued Dennis Brown

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She rushed outside and saw all the doors were closed, initially believing it was empty.

“I just happened to see his head move just a little bit from the headrest and then I realized there was someone in there,” Arrington said.

She ran to the car and opened the door, urging Brown to flee from the fire. 

“She said ‘get out of the car,’” said Brown, who became paralyzed after he was shot at 22. “I said ‘I can’t I’m in a wheelchair.’”

She originally grabbed the wheelchair, but soon realized she didn’t have enough time to put it together.

Arrington, only 5-foot-3, said she dragged Brown out and then placed him in the wheelchair after it was assembled. 

Dennis Brown thanked and praised Tammi Arrington, saying if it wasn’t for her he wouldn’t know if he “would’ve gotten out.”

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The two moved far from the car fire until the local fire department extinguished the flames.

Brown said in all the chaos, he never got her name.

While Brown’s loved ones went over later to thank Arrington at the home she was visiting, they also never caught her name.