WEBVTT 00:00.645 --> 00:01.813 - I'm Ian T. Burnahm. 00:01.813 --> 00:03.401 I'm a Corporal in the Marines. 00:03.401 --> 00:07.068 I'm from 3rd Maintenance Battalion CR353 MOG 00:11.803 --> 00:13.137 - [Voiceover] So, how did you come across 00:13.137 --> 00:14.249 the scene of the accident? 00:14.249 --> 00:16.334 - Well, me and Lance Corporal Rosas 00:16.334 --> 00:17.762 were walking back from liberty. 00:17.762 --> 00:19.665 It was about 9, 10 o'clock at night. 00:19.665 --> 00:22.112 So, we're headed back on base and right in front of us 00:22.112 --> 00:23.480 a car was pulling a U-turn. 00:23.480 --> 00:25.255 Another one pulled out of a convenience store 00:25.255 --> 00:28.838 and they just T-boned right in front of us. 00:31.888 --> 00:34.400 - [Voiceover] How did you first react to that? 00:34.400 --> 00:36.130 - My first reaction was, 00:36.130 --> 00:38.735 "Oh, my gosh. There's a car crash in front of us." 00:38.735 --> 00:40.910 Then after that it was more of instinct kicked 00:40.910 --> 00:42.580 and I had to make sure everyone was alright 00:42.580 --> 00:45.080 and no one was seriously hurt. 00:45.203 --> 00:47.910 Once the cars hit, one spun off into the center of the road 00:47.910 --> 00:51.209 and the other one kinda limped over to the side of the road. 00:51.209 --> 00:52.991 So it's pretty much out of the way. 00:52.991 --> 00:56.241 At that point, I ran over and made sure 00:56.959 --> 00:58.212 the passenger inside the car 00:58.212 --> 00:59.766 that was in the middle of the road was alright 00:59.766 --> 01:03.568 so he could get out of the way of oncoming traffic. 01:03.568 --> 01:05.090 We noticed that the car was on fire 01:05.090 --> 01:07.467 after we pulled the one guy out of the car 01:07.467 --> 01:09.172 and make sure he was alright. 01:09.172 --> 01:11.607 And then we started to make sure the other driver was okay 01:11.607 --> 01:15.690 and at that point we notice that the car was on fire. 01:15.690 --> 01:16.811 - [Voiceover] What happened once you got 01:16.811 --> 01:18.978 the person out of the car? 01:19.155 --> 01:21.479 - Once we took the guy out of the car, 01:21.479 --> 01:23.436 we pulled him over the side, put him on the sidewalk 01:23.436 --> 01:24.288 and laid him down. 01:24.288 --> 01:26.149 It looked like his neck was hurting pretty bad 01:26.149 --> 01:27.435 and we didn't want to move him after that 01:27.435 --> 01:28.836 if we didn't have to. 01:28.836 --> 01:30.925 And then after that we were just trying to clear the area. 01:30.925 --> 01:33.349 Make sure no one was near any of the vehicles 01:33.349 --> 01:36.843 that were damaged and we saw the car was on fire. 01:36.843 --> 01:38.155 - [Voiceover] How did you get him out of the car? 01:38.155 --> 01:40.117 Can you describe taking him out of the car? 01:40.117 --> 01:41.098 Did you pick him up? 01:41.098 --> 01:42.811 Did you drag him out of the car? 01:42.811 --> 01:46.311 Was he able to get out the car by himself? 01:46.347 --> 01:48.822 - When I came up on the car I knocked on the window 01:48.822 --> 01:52.557 to make sure he was at least awake or conscious. 01:52.557 --> 01:55.517 And then he was kinda leaned over on the side. 01:55.517 --> 01:57.759 So, I opened the door, undid his seat-belt 01:57.759 --> 01:59.114 and he was talking. 01:59.114 --> 02:00.249 I couldn't tell you what he was saying 02:00.249 --> 02:03.456 because I don't speak Japanese but he was talking, 02:03.456 --> 02:04.318 holding his neck. 02:04.318 --> 02:06.783 So at that point, I put his arm over his neck 02:06.783 --> 02:10.368 and pulled him out and took him over to the sidewalk. 02:10.368 --> 02:12.674 Military training definitely assisted in this 02:12.674 --> 02:15.536 because I had some sort of background knowledge 02:15.536 --> 02:18.031 on how to come up on a situation where someone's hurt 02:18.031 --> 02:20.698 that I could help them out with. 02:22.270 --> 02:24.736 - [Voiceover] How did you turn off the fire again? 02:24.736 --> 02:26.966 - Once we saw the car was on fire 02:26.966 --> 02:27.946 we started clearing the area 02:27.946 --> 02:31.614 to make sure no one was going to be near a car 02:31.614 --> 02:33.783 that potentially could explode. 02:33.783 --> 02:34.896 So, we're clearing the area 02:34.896 --> 02:38.686 and two Japanese workers from the nearby shop, 02:38.686 --> 02:41.853 they came over with fire extinguishers 02:42.004 --> 02:43.742 and they were hesitant to use them. 02:43.742 --> 02:45.278 I don't know if they were scared or what 02:45.278 --> 02:48.528 but they gave us the fire extinguishers 02:48.620 --> 02:51.919 and then we put the fire out from there. 02:51.919 --> 02:55.252 I think it's made me more willing to act 02:55.303 --> 02:58.195 because after everyone talking about all this 02:58.195 --> 02:59.679 it's like okay, at the end of the day 02:59.679 --> 03:01.403 I did help somebody who needed it 03:01.403 --> 03:03.903 so that's definitely humbling. 03:04.276 --> 03:06.998 But if I'm ever in a situation again 03:06.998 --> 03:11.165 I'm definitely not going to think twice about acting. 03:11.646 --> 03:14.286 I think it's great that we going awarded 03:14.286 --> 03:15.119 for something like this 03:15.119 --> 03:16.281 but I'm just really glad 03:16.281 --> 03:18.318 we could help somebody out who needed it.