U.S. Army Capt. Dennis Edwards received the Army’s highest peacetime award for valor yesterday, because he rescued two drivers out of their burning vehicles after a traffic accident in Texas last January, the Department of Defense announced today.

Edwards saw two cars collide in an intersection where he was stopped. He pulled one driver out of the car through the passenger door, because the driver’s side of the car was already on fire. With the help of other people in the vicinity, he also pulled the second driver out of that burning vehicle.