MESA, AZ — Just days after a woman was pulled from her burning vehicle on US 60 in the East Valley, she got to meet and thank the first responders who saved her life.
Watch as Aymee Ruiz met the police officer and firefighter who helped rescue her:
"I thought I was going to burn alive in there," Aymee Ruiz told ABC15 through tears. "It was so hard just living in that kind of fear and having to depend on others to try and rescue you."
It all happened just before 7 a.m. on a Tuesday morning on US 60 near Greenfield Road.
DPS officials said a cement mixer rear-ended Ruiz's pick-up truck, causing the truck to catch fire.
Police body camera video that has since gone viral shows an officer breaking her window and an off-duty firefighter pulling her out of the truck.
Mesa Fire and Medical Department also held an event honoring the first responders who took action:
