New Brunswick Boy Rescues Woman From a Burning Car

A 16-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero for pulling a woman from a burning car in Kent County, New Brunswick.

CTV News

Joey LeBlanc was riding home with his mother around 9 Saturday night, when they came upon a car engulfed in flames off a country road in Cocagne.  The driver was stuck in the half-open window.

LeBlanc said that several people had stopped, “but they weren’t doing anything.”

That’s when he decided he had to help, and rushed toward the burning car.

LeBlanc told CTV news, “I was afraid…but I was just thinking about saving her.”

Cocagne Fire Chief Danny Desroches said when firefighters arrived about 10 people were watching the car burn while the teen pulled the driver from the vehicle.

“If it wasn’t for him she probably would have burned with the car,” Desroches said.

RCMP identified the driver as a 37-year-old woman from Cocagne. She was taken to the hospital for treatment.

Donna Despres caught her son’s heroic moment on video. She said, “He surprises me sometimes, like he did last night.”