Marine Veteran and Teen Daughter Help Save Six Strangers From Fiery Highway Crash

A Marine veteran and his teenage daughter are being hailed as heroes after they helped save six strangers from a terrifying fiery crash on an Arizona highway.

Casey Reinke, a luxury real estate agent and former Marine, was driving down Carefree Highway with his 14-year-old daughter, Elliana, on Saturday night when chaos erupted in front of them.

According to reports, a speeding car slammed into a pickup truck, and both vehicles quickly burst into flames.

Reinke did not wait for someone else to act.

He pulled over, told Elliana to call police, and rushed toward the burning wreckage. While her father ran into danger, Elliana began flagging down other drivers, helping create a makeshift rescue team right there on the side of the road.

“In the midst of the chaos, it almost felt like unspoken orchestration,” Reinke told AZ Family.

Reinke managed to pull the driver from one of the vehicles by himself. But several people were still trapped inside the pickup truck as flames spread near the bumper.

That is when the group of good Samaritans sprang into action.

Together, they flipped the truck over and pulled five people out through its shattered windows, getting them away from the burning wreckage before it was too late.

Two women remain in critical condition and have required multiple surgeries while recovering from severe burns, according to Fox 10.

Reinke later admitted that in the heat of the moment, he was not thinking about his own safety.

“I was more worried about what would happen if we couldn’t do it,” he told Fox 10.

He said it was obvious that every second mattered.

“It was really clear that our time was limited,” Reinke said. “We had to find a way to make it happen, and that’s kind of how Marines work.”

One survivor, Jeffrey Johnson, said he and his family are deeply grateful for Reinke and the other strangers who rushed in to help.

“To have a group of people that didn’t know each other … come together and make that happen in such a quick time — it saved lives,” Johnson told AZ Family.

Johnson said the car that caused the crash had been traveling more than 100 mph when it slammed into the pickup and punctured its gas tank.

Responding firefighters later told Elliana that her father’s quick thinking helped save all six people involved.

But to Elliana, her dad’s bravery was not surprising.

“My dad is that guy,” she wrote on Instagram. “Proud of him.”