VIDEO: Turkish Truck Driver Heroically Saves the Day when Tanker Catches Fire


The footage you are about to see was recorded at a gas station in Turkey. What happened was that a tanker truck caught fire while it was filling the underground fuel tanks, with the fire allegedly triggered by static electricity. People who saw the fire expanding rapidly started running away, fearing an imminent explosion.

However, Engin Koçak, the truck driver, felt he had the duty to do something, so he first attempted to put out the fire with an extinguisher. The blaze was too powerful for that, so he got in the cabin and drove the truck away from the station, risking his own life in order to save the lives of others.

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