First responders in Phoenix rescue motorcyclist trapped under a car

PHOENIX (NBC, KYMA/KECY) - Dramatic bodycam video shows a group of first responders in Phoenix lifting a car off of an injured motorcyclist last month.

When Sgt. Ricky Jarrett got to the scene of the crash, he knew he'd have to keep the motorcycle rider calm. He didn't know he'd also have to lift the car off of him.

Sgt. Jarrett rolled up on the crash near Seventh Street and Bell. The motorcyclist was stuck under a Buick.

"His leg again was up by his chest, and the other leg was tangled up underneath the drive train. So, I knew that that leg was clearly broken," Jarrett shared.

Jarrett said the rider was actually fairly calm for being underneath a car.

"If he's underneath the car like that, typically, if he'd been run over, he might have internal bleeding, right? So, I was nervous that if he'd been moved or adjusted, if he has internal bleeding or spinal injury...it's going to go south pretty fast for that guy," Jarrett said. "At that point, I just knew, like, 'Keep the dude calm, try to talk to him,' and he was extremely calm for the situation that he was in. For sure."

The guy's clearly in pain and Jarrett waited for the fire department to get there.

"When fire got there, I thought they were going to have some tool, that they were just like a jack of some sort," Jarrett said.

But they didn't have a jack. They had Jarrett and a half-dozen firefighters.

"Then they started discussing, 'Oh, no, we're going to lift it.' And so then I turned around like, 'Okay, if we're going to lift it, uh, let's get ready," Jarrett detailed. "I was like, I was confused. I didn't think we were gonna do that. And then, in the back of my mind, I was like, 'Oh man, hopefully I get an easy spot, because it's gonna be heavy."

Jarrett got the bumper while the firefighters got the rest, and someone slid the motorcyclist out from under the car.

Jarrett says he's heard the guy is recovering, but not all of the crashes he sees end that way.

"It sucks, It's hard when you're on those accidents and somebody passes, we don't always talk about but we see it a lot, so it is rough for us. So it's nice when we can see hey, everything we did worked. This guy is safe. He gets to go home to his family," Jarrett expressed.