FORT MONTGOMERY, N.Y. (WNCN) – A former Raleigh high school football standout and current Army player sprang to action over the weekend to rescue a man from a burning car.

Larry Pickett Jr. and his family were on the way back from dinner in Times Square when they noticed a car that smashed into a utility pole early Sunday morning in Fort Montgomery, New York, according to a report from CBS Sports. The crash occurred slightly after midnight, about five miles south of the Army’s West Point campus.

Pickett, an Enloe Magnet High School graduate and sophomore safety on the Black Knights’ football team, saw the downed power lines surrounding the vehicle. This resulted in him and his father running towards the car, lifting an unidentified man out, before carrying him to safety moments before th

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