WASHINGTON — After learning that two men helped pull a stranger from an auto fire in North Bethesda, Montgomery County officials are looking for the good Samaritans in order to honor them. Just after 10 a.m. Thursday, a driver at Rockville Pike and Grosvenor Lane was stopped at a traffic light and found that his vehicle would not accelerate. Other motorists started to point at his car, which had caught fire. In his attempt to escape, the motorist tried to unlock his car doors, but the electric mechanism failed.

MCFRS would like to learn the identity of 2 heroes who removed driver from burning car https://t.co/8XcoaHtiNS pic.twitter.com/ocpSSGdJMv

— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) January 22, 2016

That’s when two men, described only as African-American men, rushed to the car and broke out the rear driver’s side window, removing the driver from the burning vehicle. By the time authorities arrived on the scene, the good Samaritans were gone. If you have any information about the identities of these two, whom county officials are calling heroes, you are encouraged to email fire.pio@montgomerycountymd.gov.