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A police officer and a good Samaritan are being hailed heroes after saving a driver from a raging car fire. 

The incident happened in Manorville on Florence Drive at around 12:30 a.m. 

Police say 34-year-old Brad Klaus lost control of his SUV and crashed into a tree while following his father. Klaus' father told <strong>News 12</strong> that they were out running an errand. Nearby resident Thomas Zelezny saw the SUV and called 911, which brought Suffolk Police Officer Denis O'Connor to the scene.

While O'Connor used a fire extinguisher to quell the flames, Zelezny used a shovel to smash the back window of the SUV.

"As he started to break out the rest of the window with the shovel, smoke started billowing out, and the fire started spreading across the roof of the car," O'Connor told <strong>News 12</strong>.

The two then pulled Klaus to safety. He suffered minor injuries.

Police are calling the crash an accident and no charges will be filed.

A police officer and a good Samaritan are being hailed heroes after saving a driver from a raging car fire.     The incident happened in Manorville on Florence Drive at around 12:30 a.m.     Police say

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And another storm watch update that we have going on for us just a reminder. So we have a flood watch in effect through one pm Monday for all of Long Island and on top of it, we have a high wind warning in effect for Suffolk County until we get into about 11 a.m. for Monday. Now, we could be seeing wind gusts between 45 to 55 MPH, but some areas we can't even rule out reaching 60 MPH as in gusts as we get into the overnight. And for our early Monday morning, we are expecting wind speeds to be sustained between 25 to 35 MPH and just take a look at how things are as of right now, along much of the South shore, we are already starting to see some pretty strong winds around 33 MPH. Gusts for Oceanside, Farmingdale Islip and Shirley are still sustaining about 26 MPH winds and we are expecting those to strengthen as we get into the rest of tonight. But again, here's the storm system that's just really just been stalled out throughout much of the east coast continuing to pump in not only rain but strong winds across Long Island. Now, the good news is as of right now, we're not dealing with much in regards to rain, especially for the eastern side of what we have on Long Island, but we are expecting the rain to continue to build as we get into the next several hours. Especially once we get around 10 o'clock, we're looking for a bit more of that rain to not only just be lights but heavy rainfall from Glen Cove to Huntington and even for Hempstead. Now, from Nassau County over towards the western side of Suffolk County, we're looking at this to be a slow moving band of heavy rainfall that will continue to stretch its way across Long Island, which is why our concerns for flooding are mainly going to be overnight and into a very early Monday morning, which could again impact your Monday morning commute because we are gonna still see some heavy and even consistent rainfall throughout our early m Monday morning around sunrise. And even around seven o'clock, we're still dealing with a bit of some rain as well, but you could take notes that it's not only it's gonna be wet, but it also will be colder as temperatures will drop into the forties by sunrise. Now, gusting winds again, near 60 MPH are possible along the South shore and southern parts of Long Island and tomorrow though it's not gonna be 60 MPH. We're still gonna be dealing with strong winds and here's how much rain we could potentially see again. Close to three inches of rainfall is left for many areas, especially over towards Suffolk County. Once we're done with the rain colder for the week.

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Storm brings heavy downpours & high, gusty winds through the morning. Stay with News 12 for updates.

Man rescued from burning vehicle in Manorville