WASHINGTON — Army football player Larry Pickett Jr. is being praised after he helped rescue a man from a burning car after a crash Sunday.

Pickett is a second-year cadet at the service academy and was returning to West Point Saturday night after dining with his family in New York.

show a fiery single-car crash off the side of the road, surrounded by downed power lines.

When Pickett and his father, Larry Pickett Sr., saw the crash about five miles from the Army's West Point campus, they rushed into action. Video taken by Pickett's sister shows the father-son pair .

"Just after midnight, I watched in awe as my son, Larry Pickett Jr., ran toward a burning vehicle, ignoring the downed power lines crackling around it," Larry Pickett Sr. wrote on the Facebook post showing the rescue. "With i

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