Bar patrons save man from burning car

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A group of people at a local bar became heroes when a car caught fire in the parking lot outside Club Lebistro on Highway 90.

A completely scorched and destroyed car sat in the parking lot Thursday morning. The scene could've been much much worse, if it weren’t for the help of Roger Curry.

Curry said, "Fireman said it was an electrical fire."

Roger Curry was at the bar around 2:30 this morning when someone saw an image on the surveillance camera.

"They said, 'the car's on fire!" he said.

And a young man was lying down inside. Curry recalled the flames were shooting up nearly 20 feet in the air. So Curry did the only thing he knew to do.

He went in after him.

“I was hopin’ the flames wouldn’t reach up. You know, get both of us.”

As the blaze consumed the car, Curry pulled the man out.

After the man was pulled out of the car, bartenders and patrons then helped put out the flames.

"I drug him right back here,” he said pointing at the cement. “When I see people go through gettin’ burnt, and the kind of medical care they have to go through, intensive care and stuff, not one way you wanna go anyway.”

By the time fire crews arrived, the car was totaled. But Curry said the man was safe.

"We told him he might have road rash on his butt, but he didn't seem to care, and I don't blame him. He's alive," Curry said, but he doesn't want to be called a hero. "I’m just trying to be a human being, that's all I can do. That's all any of us really supposed to be doing, helping each other.".