Bodycam footage captured the harrowing moments when sheriff’s deputy Brittan Morgan drove through a roaring wildfire near Elk, Washington, narrowly escaping the inferno. NBC News’ Kathy Park reports.
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So very glad that you were able to escape the wildfire!! Stay safe
OMG! He risked his own life! People, please listen!
He was just pushing people away
Hey NBCNews, why is the Nightly News Full Broadcast – Sept. 1 not available for people from Taiwan???
He drove through the fire for 5 seconds. 🙄
It was 5.7 seconds. You weren’t there!
I think they cut some footage, this is still pretty crazy
brave internet warriors with a stop watch. shm my head
It was about 30 sec
How many fires have u willing drove through ?
dude….
N B C what you expect ?
a xylophone @Edward Dunlap
prayers to you , its happening here in Texas & Lousiana too !
Good
Real normal….because this kind of thing just happens…just like the safe & effective now Everyone has turbo cancer and is dying…All normal!
September is the first month of Hurricane season we also get the most hurricanes in this month every year. BEWARE! Can’t the materialists that we love & call family just stay home on dangerous weather days for all of us. Doing our home inside things to do. Have hobbies. I’m building a personal library and learning “Hand Book binding” got the stuff & books thru AMazon and ready to have some Mylar put on my books as well, it’s what the libraries put on to protect the books. I love books and to read so I usually do. God bless & protect my loved ones & all everybodys’ also out of Spokane this pm. nite. my Sabbath nite prayers are for you, hope you are OK & safe with your boys & Susie. God bless Frank & Susie.
Plus lets’ not forget we have a blue moon this month, & one is a larger than normal very large blue moon. So BeWARE STAY LOCAL AT HOME. DO HOME projects & such. Live at home for a few day try it you might like it.
So amazing. God is good.
Trump will be the next president of USA. It will be jail time for all the fake news too.
what is fake about this video?
Why do people need to be convinced to evacuate? Do they really believe they have a chance against a huge fire barreling towards them? It boggles the mind how invincible they think they are.
I think a lot of people see the fire. And some guys think that it isn’t too bad.
But it’s actually the smoke that makes wildfires dangerous.
@hmm That must be it. Just the smoke alone would make me flee because I wouldn’t want to breathe it.
How frustrating it must be to have citizens resisting his attempts to save their lives.
This is a free country and if people want to take a chance…THEY HAVE THAT GOD GIVING RIGHT BOZO!
@vrp That make racists afraid again is a 100% cia bot…who makes the Dumbest nWo comments.
@vrp Because of his profile picture. Duh. The clown in chief.
Imagine how you must feel if you are wheelchair bound, lack mobility or transport and incapable of escaping the fires yourself. I mean we see how terrified and vocal the officer is but honestly does he recognise the level of privilege he has?
Dude, what are you talking about? He’s yelling at people driving cars to go. smh
@Alexa PuertaI think they got dropped on their head or something
If you hear a first responder panicking, that should be the universal sign to RUN…but apparently not…
Lucky the road wasn’t blocked in the middle of that
That’s what the push bumpers is installed for on most highway patrol crusiers.
Troop G
@JASON BROWNthat push bar ain’t doing nothing against a tree on the ground
The world will die by fire. Man’s killing the planet.
What an amazing person! That is what a hero looks like.
September 8th be prepared
I swear my blood pressure went up watching that video!!!!!!
People are really idiots, all the police and firefighters who have died because of all these people.
Started by an arsonist just like the Greek and Canada ones
cool story bro.
@Weegan Keegan imagine believing in the climate hoax🤡
39 tried and convicted in Greece, but MSM didn’t report it, so it obviously didn’t happen. 📺🐑🐑🐑🐑?
Yes 😂
Action hero
No radio personality or reality show celebrity deserves the adulation this man should receive.
Thank you Officer Morgan for the work you do.❤
Glad you made it I don’t like cops but I hate dying by fire more stay safe
And Republicans continue to deny climate change.
That’s because they re not easily led and exercise critical thinking.👍
@AB Smith Is that why so many were for the Iraq War in 2003 and got us into a war that we were stuck in for over 20 years? You are a joke.
Amazing footage.
You can’t teach fire rescue? Make it a mission on Call of Duty, then maybe our officers will be properly trained on how to correctly handle themselves during a fire.
When there’s a forest fire, it’s always important to evacuate.
If you can’t. You’ll have to find a place that’s below ground level. Because all that stuff moves upwards.
Unless you’re a firefighter. It’s just not safe to put it out yourself.
Wow they have some amazing police officers there.❤
Yep, they certainly do . Every time they stage an insurrection, they alway, always open a door for you and escort you to the correct chamber.
Did he catch the arsonists though ?
Couldn’t of been a AL, MS, TN cop. They would of kept ppl in it.
Proof?
I can’t imagine anything more frightening.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Wow!
The rubber tires on the car of this police officer were as sturdy as his conviction.
My question like he drove from an area not on fire through an area on fire why? Is that like a dead end area?
That looked absolutely terrifying
This is why we need to defund the police so that people can’t be helped and it becomes like Lahaina with peril.