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sl8

(13,676 posts)
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 11:30 AM Aug 2019

Danny Trejo Helps Saves Baby Trapped in Vehicle After Car Accident

From https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/danny-trejo-saves-baby-car-accident/


Danny Trejo Helps Saves Baby Trapped in Vehicle After Car Accident


By Emily Bicks
Updated Aug 8, 2019 at 4:57pm

Actor Danny Trejo might be best known for playing some of the scariest villains in numerous films, but he also happens to be one of the most beloved celebrities in Hollywood. Not only does the former Sons of Anarchy star have the reputation as being one of the most incredibly kind and caring people on the planet, on Wednesday afternoon, he earned the title of real-life hero after helping save a baby from an overturned vehicle.

Captured on video, Trejo, who was wearing a white tank top and rocking a Trejo’s Taco hat from his collection of Mexican restaurants in Los Angeles, said that he just so happened to be in the Sylmar area in Southern California when two cars crashed into each other near the intersection of Hubbard Street and Jackman Avenue. After seeing the damage, the Machete star and another bystander, a female, rushed toward the wreckage.

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Danny Trejo Helps Saves Baby Trapped in Vehicle After Car Accident (Original Post) sl8 Aug 2019 OP
I've heard a lot of wonderful things about him over the years. Pacifist Patriot Aug 2019 #1
Oh, me too. His kindness and generosity are well known. I'm not sure but believe Al Pacino helped monmouth4 Aug 2019 #3
Firefighters were amazed gay texan Aug 2019 #2

Pacifist Patriot

(24,652 posts)
1. I've heard a lot of wonderful things about him over the years.
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 12:52 PM
Aug 2019

I have a few college friends who have worked behind the camera out in Hollywood for decades. Whenever his name comes up, it is in gushing terms. And we're talking about people in a pretty cynical line of work. I'm not much on being enamored of celebrities, but he's certainly one I would love to meet in person.

monmouth4

(9,686 posts)
3. Oh, me too. His kindness and generosity are well known. I'm not sure but believe Al Pacino helped
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 01:09 PM
Aug 2019

to get him into films like he helped Samuel L. Jackson. Pacino insisted on having Danny in the film "Heat" and wow, what a performance Danny gave.

gay texan

(2,435 posts)
2. Firefighters were amazed
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 01:03 PM
Aug 2019

When he peeled the roof of the car back with his bare hands and rescued the kid....

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