Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about an old man in Wisconsin who was rescued from his car after it was engulfed in flames. While watching the news story, they notice he sure took his time getting out of the vehicle when police arrived.
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00:00It sucks to be old.
00:10Well, police in Wisconsin helped save an 84-year-old guy
00:16after his minivan burst into flames.
00:21Oh, no.
00:22This could happen to my dad at any time.
00:25That's full-size van, boy.
00:27I hope it doesn't.
00:30I hope it doesn't, too.
00:32This happened, I guess, because the guy blew a tire
00:35and thought he could still make it home.
00:38I'm fine.
00:41Sparks.
00:42Flames.
00:44Well, yeah, because that tire doesn't stick around long, you know?
00:47Like, eventually, when it blows, it'll just tear apart.
00:51So, yeah.
00:53Donald Schmeling is real lucky that the cops were close by.
00:58Here's the story of what happened to this poor old dude from NBC15.
01:02Take a listen.
01:05What?
01:06Like a stunt scene out of Hollywood, 9 p.m. Tuesday,
01:10a Kenosha police officer behind a van.
01:12It's ring sparking, a streak of fire.
01:15Seconds later, it bursts into flames.
01:17Behind the wheel, 84-year-old Donald Schmeling
01:19says he heard his tire pop and tried to make it home.
01:22I'm good.
01:23I'm fine.
01:23I was looking for a place to stop,
01:25and all of a sudden, the sparks came.
01:28You knew you were in trouble.
01:29I knew I was in trouble.
01:30Schmeling pulled over right in front of St. Mark's Church
01:33at 73rd and 12th Avenue.
01:35Officers run to the burning van.
01:36Um, go out the other side, my man.
01:39He just dragged him away and likely saved his life.
01:42Luckily, Schmeling escaped with a small burn on his forehead.
01:46After I got out and it was burning,
01:50they just put me in the squad car.
01:54My jacket was burned, head burned, so.
01:56As this van bursts into flames,
01:58police say it's really incredible it didn't explode
02:01because it could have ended much differently
02:04for the driver and the officers.
02:06I was amazed to see that somebody survived this,
02:09and thankfully, Kenosha Police was in the right spot
02:12to be able to help.
02:12Thankful for those officers?
02:14I am.
02:16And the fire department.
02:18They're all good here.
02:18He's just a slow-talking, slow-moving man.
02:21Look, he just stood in the fire for a while.
02:24He just stood in the fire.
02:24Oh, well.
02:26He's like, sir, how are you doing?
02:29Hey, guys.
02:29Sir, move.
02:30Oh, my God.
02:31You got to get out of the...
02:32You're standing in fire.
02:33Sir, you're on fire.
02:35Yes.
02:35You're forehead.
02:36I am.
02:37Donald!
02:37I'll get over there.
02:38Don't worry.
02:39Donald, get out of the minivan!
02:41What?
02:42Get out of the minivan!
02:44All right, let me take my time here.
02:46Open the door.
02:47Oh, look.
02:48A blazing inferno.
02:49I guess he'll stand right inside of it.
02:52Slow.
02:52Like, even he said he was looking for a place to pull over.
02:54Just pull, like there was no other road!
02:56Pull over!
02:57Yeah, there's no way he could have climbed to the other side, though.
03:01No.
03:01He's not in shape enough to climb to the other side.
03:04No, no.
03:05In a minivan, get over to the passenger side and get out that door, there's no way in hell.
03:09No.
03:10So he had to just...
03:10In the time it would have taken him to do that, he would have burnt to a crisp.
03:13Well, no.
03:14I think there's no fire on the other side.
03:15Oh, but I see what you're saying.
03:16It would have taken him so long to get there.
03:19The flames would have been up there by then.
03:21Yeah, he would have just died.
03:21But also another way to die is just stand in fire.
03:28You wouldn't think you'd have to tell people that.
03:30No.
03:31Don't stand in fire.
03:32Hey!
03:32Hey!
03:33He was like...
03:34Woo!
03:34It's hot!
03:35Yeah, it's hot!
03:36You're standing in fire, bud!
03:37Oh, whoa!
03:39You gotta get out of the room!
03:40I can really feel it on the top of my head!
03:42It's hot as blazes!
03:43Oh, my God!
03:46Siri!
03:48What is the forecast for tonight?
03:51It's so hot!
03:53Hottest Wisconsin night in history.
03:55Oh, my God!
03:57I should have dressed lighter!
04:01Are you talking to the news?
04:02He talks so slow.
04:04Everything about him is slow.
04:05He was standing in fire.
04:10Don't stand in fire.
04:12Like, if you're standing in fire, you'd think you'd be like...
04:15Your body would...
04:17Everything about your whole self would be like...
04:19Get out of this!
04:21And he wasn't.
04:22They're all good.
04:23Oh, well.
04:23And he brought me home.
04:25Watch!
04:26Hello.
04:27Hi.
04:27The officers were hot.
04:28Take me a little bit here.
04:29Which way did I go?
04:30Oh, what the hell?
04:31The van's on fire, huh?
04:33Whoa!
04:35Whose van is that?
04:40Son of a bitch.
04:41That poor guy.
04:42He's so lucky.
04:43I love that he was like, I was just looking for a place to pull over.
04:48That was safe.
04:49Not trying to drive it all the way home.
04:51Right.
04:51Like, we know.
04:52Cops said the siren's going.
04:54He still wasn't pulling over.
04:56It's not safe.
04:57He pulled over finally.
04:58I guess this is a church here.
04:59Yeah.
05:00That's where it just...
05:01We probably was like, it's a scam!
05:03It's like the scene from Back to the Future.
05:05It really is.
05:06I don't know what happened.
05:08Behind the van.
05:09It's rim sparking.
05:10I see a new idea that one of the van.
05:12What?
05:13And he definitely wasn't going 88 miles per hour.
05:15No.
05:15A trail of fire behind him.
05:18We're looking to hit 28 miles an hour.
05:21Don't do 28.
05:23Look at him.
05:23He's fine.
05:24What?
05:25Come on.
05:27Everybody's overreacting.
05:29I stood inside the fire.
05:31It wasn't that hot.
05:34Mr. Smelling, were you okay?
05:36Everything was fine?
05:37What?
05:38You never stood in a fire before?
05:39No, actually.
05:40God, this generation of yours.
05:42It seems like you were pretty slow moving, considering you left a trail of fire for a mile behind you.
05:46I didn't notice the fire.
05:48You were just trying to get home with a flat tire?
05:50Of course I was!
05:52You ever think of calling AAA?
05:54I am not a member of AAA.
05:56Oh.
05:56You ever think of changing the tire yourself?
05:57Actually, there's no chance he's not a member of AAA.
06:00What about the AARP?
06:01Don't they have some of that stuff, too?
06:02They've got to.
06:03Roadside?
06:03I can do it myself.
06:06All I had to do was get home.
06:08Oh, goodness.
06:09Yeah.
06:09That's what being cheap and old will do to you there.
06:12Cheap old and slow moving.
06:13Do you think it's possible he didn't even know his tire was?
06:16Yes.
06:18No, he heard it pop.
06:19Yeah.
06:20He said he heard it pop, but he was trying to make it home.
06:22That's what he told the news.
06:24Yep.
06:27He almost died that day.
06:28He absolutely.
06:29Like, he was, don't you think, like 30 seconds away from dying?
06:32Yes.
06:32Yeah.
06:33Although you can't tell here in this shot.
06:35No.
06:36He looks completely not at nothing wrong.
06:38Not a scratch on him.
06:39He looks like he's like, oh, I just had a Salisbury steak.
06:43Salisbury steak.
06:45Caught me at a bad time.
06:47You know he's knee-deep in Salisbury steak.
06:51Oh, my God.
06:52Just made a delicious Salisbury steak.
06:56Stouffer's.
06:57Oh, man.
06:58Right out the box.
07:00Microwave kind or the kind you cook in the oven?
07:02Microwave.
07:03Oh, good choice.
07:05Yep.
07:05You just hit the, my grandson told me, hit that one button.
07:08And it cooks it up.
07:11Now, we're glad he's okay.
07:13But move faster.
07:14My God.
07:15Move faster if there's fire is the warning for today.
07:17No.