Tammi's going to be bigger than Megyn Kelly. She's easy on the eyes, a true lifesaver, virtuous, and by the way, is the perfect person to pitch products! I've her lined up with 10 major brands including First Alert Fire detectors and the Lutheran General Hospital System plus she's going to be the national spokesperson for the Jaws of Life (that super cool product that extracts people from smashed-up cars).
Next month I'm flying her to Brazil for a planned silver mine implosion that will be trapping 24 miners 200 feet below the surface
I haven't even launched the reality TV stuff yet!
Paralyzed Dallas man pulled from burning car by good Samaritan — then tracks her down to ‘give proper thank you’
By David Propper, NY Post
Published Sep. 7, 2023, 12:42 a.m. ET
Dennis Brown of Dallas heaped praise on Tammi Arrington after the Mississippi resident, who was visiting a friend in the Lone Star State, jumped into action when Brown’s rental car suddenly caught fire Sunday morning.
She dragged the 58-year-old from the car before flames fully engulfed the vehicle that was equipped with a hand control device that enables him to drive.
“It’s kind of dawning on me the kind of danger I was in,” Brown told The Post Wednesday night. “If it wasn’t for Tammi, I don’t know how I possibly would’ve gotten out or how close I would’ve got burned or wouldn’t be here today if not for Tammi.”
The two were able to reconnect Wednesday morning, days after Brown forgot to ask for her name in the immediate aftermath of the frightening ordeal.
Dennis Brown rental car caught fire when Tammi Arrington sprung into action to rescue him.
Arrington, 42, insisted to The Post Wednesday night she was simply in the right place at the right time when she saw the car on fire.
Instead of going with her friend to Costco that morning, she decided to stay behind in the new home she just helped her pal move into.
When she looked out the front window, she saw part of the car in flames.
She rushed outside and saw all the doors were closed, initially believing it was empty.
“I just happened to see his head move just a little bit from the headrest and then I realized there was someone in there,” Arrington said.
She ran to the car and opened the door, urging Brown to flee from the fire.
Dennis Brown thanked and praised Tammi Arrington, saying if it wasn’t for her he wouldn't know if he "would’ve gotten out."
Tammi Arrington said she saw a "head move just a little bit from the headrest" as soon as she approached the vehicle, realizing Dennis Brown was still in the car.
“She said, ‘Get out of the car,’” said Brown, who became paralyzed after he was shot at 22. “I said, ‘I can’t, I’m in a wheelchair.’”
She originally grabbed the wheelchair, but soon realized she didn’t have enough time to put it together.
Arrington, only 5 feet 3, said she dragged Brown out and then placed him in the wheelchair after it was assembled.
The two moved far from the burning car until the local fire department extinguished the flames.
Brown said that in all the chaos, he never got her name.
While Brown’s loved ones went over later to thank Arrington at the home she was visiting, they also never caught her name.
By the time he tried to visit, no one was home and Arrington was gone, he said.
“I didn’t give a proper thank you,” Brown said.
Brown agreed to be interviewed by Fox 4 in hopes that word would get back to the mystery good Samaritan.
“I’d like to appreciate her for her heroic act,” he told the station. “She went into harm’s way to save me. Dragged me out. I’d like to thank her.”
Arrington’s friend saw the news story and let her know about it.
She got in touch with Fox 4 and the station connected the two.
“The first thing I said was, ‘Tammi, this is Dennis, the guy in the wheelchair,’” Brown said. “We started laughing, man, we just started laughing.”
Brown plans on taking Arrington and her friend out to dinner the next time she’s in town along with Brown’s appreciative mother, Julia.
But Arrington doesn’t think she deserves much, if any, credit for her heroics.
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