He crawled in. He couldn’t get the buckle. A young woman got the buckle. Together they got the child out. He kept the child calm while the professionals did the technical work. Everybody did their part. Nobody died. The city named a day after him five months later, for this and for everything that preceded it.
He went home. He went back to the counseling work and the restaurants and the films and the speaking engagements and the daily choices that constitute the life he built.
He is still building it. In Pacoima. In Los Angeles. One Wednesday afternoon at a time.
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Danny Trejo spent thirty years playing Hollywood’s most dangerous men on screen. In August 2019, he was a bystander at a Sylmar car crash — and he crawled into the overturned vehicle to help pull a child to safety.
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Danny Trejo’s Real Rescue: Sylmar Car Crash, August 2019
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Danny Trejo helped free a child from an overturned car in Sylmar in August 2019. Here’s what happened, who else helped, and what fifty years built this moment.
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ABC7/KABC, “‘Machete’ to the rescue: Actor Danny Trejo helps save child trapped in overturned car in Sylmar” (August 8, 2019) — primary on-scene reporting. Established: location (Hubbard Street and Jackman Avenue, Sylmar), Trejo’s presence, car overturned on its roof, child strapped in car seat, grandmother in front seat, bystander assistance, LAFD transport of three people with no life-threatening injuries, Trejo quote on helping someone else. Syndicated across ABC affiliate sites; treated as one source rather than multiple independent accounts. URL: https://abc7.com/5451006/