Off duty firefighter helps woman attacked on the street
Plainfield Township, Mich. (WZZM) - An afternoon enjoying the great weather turned into much more for an off duty Plainfield Township firefighter.
Matt Van Dyken was driving with his mom and fiance when his mom saw a man attacking a woman.
She pulled the van over and started honking her horn. That's when Matt jumped out and tried to stop what he says was a man choking a woman that had been thrown to the ground.
"And the female patient was laying right here and I just quickly looked down at her just to see if I could see her breathing," said Van Dyken. "But my goal was to make sure that that guy was going to be stopped because I didn't know if he had a weapon or what his intention was, if he was just going randomly around attacking people, I didn't know what the situation was so I knew that guy needed to be stopped.