ICE officer hailed as hero after saving driver injured in Missouri crash

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) serviceman successful Missouri is being praised by the Department of Homeland Security aft stopping to supply lifesaving aesculapian attraction to a operator injured successful a superior crash, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday.

DHS praised ICE serviceman Curtland Sawyer for helping prevention the motorist's beingness aft witnessing the collision portion driving home.

According to DHS, Sawyer, who is assigned to ICE's St. Louis sub-office, was driving location connected July 11 erstwhile helium saw a conveyance collide with a tractor-trailer extracurricular of Festus, Missouri.

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ICE serviceman Curtland Sawyer stopped to assistance a operator injured successful a collision with a tractor-trailer extracurricular Festus, Missouri, according to the Department of Homeland Security. (Department of Homeland Security)

DHS said Sawyer rushed to the country and provided lifesaving aesculapian care, including applying a tourniquet to the driver's limb to halt life-threatening bleeding.

Sawyer remained with the injured operator until exigency aesculapian technicians arrived to supply further treatment, DHS said.

"ICE instrumentality enforcement serviceman Curtland Sawyer instantly delivered lifesaving aesculapian attraction to a operator who was progressive successful a superior collision with a tractor-trailer successful Missouri. Officer Sawyer is simply a hero," DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said successful a statement.

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ICE serviceman Curtland Sawyer is being recognized by the Department of Homeland Security aft providing lifesaving aesculapian attraction to a operator injured successful a clang successful Missouri. (Department of Homeland Security)

"Our officers are the champion of the best," she continued. "When they spot idiosyncratic successful need, they don’t hesitate to outpouring to enactment to help. If you spot an ICE instrumentality enforcement officer, convey them for their work to our nation."

Sawyer's actions are the latest successful a bid of rescues highlighted by DHS successful caller weeks.

Last month, an ICE serviceman jumped into a Florida swimming excavation to rescue a 6-year-old kid earlier performing lifesaving CPR, according to DHS.

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An ICE serviceman rendered exigency aesculapian assistance aft witnessing a collision involving a tractor-trailer extracurricular Festus, Missouri, according to DHS. (Department of Homeland Security)

In a abstracted incidental past month, ICE officers successful Milwaukee rescued a pistillate trapped wrong her overturned conveyance aft different operator allegedly ran a reddish airy and caused a crash, DHS said.

Fox News Digital's Charles Creitz contributed to this report.