Larry Pickett Jr., a redshirt freshman safety on the Army football team, helped rescue a man from a burning vehicle after coming across the fiery scene. Pickett Jr. and his family were on the way back from dinner in New York's Times Square on Saturday, August 30, when they saw a wrecked vehicle surrounded by downed power lines in Fort Montgomery, New York, about five miles south of Army's West Point campus. The football player and his father, Larry Pickett Sr., carried an unidentified man from the car just moments before it burst into flames. Pickett Sr.