Two teenagers have been credited for pulling out an RCMP officer from a flipped car in northeastern B.C.

Kaiden McGowan and Tanner Merrick were eating supper when they saw a truck rush past McGowan's home in Pouce Coupe on Tuesday night.

"We saw a cop car pursuing it and then the power went out," Merrick told CBC. "We just knew someone had been in an accident, so we rushed out."

That's when they saw the flipped, mangled car resting on the driver's side.

Pried the door open

"My buddy Tanner pried the door open, and we got the officer out," McGowan said.

"And then we threw a bunch of snowballs to put out a small engine fire."

The officer eventually put out the fire with an extinguisher, said Cpl. Dave Tyreman in an email.

He says the officer was trying to catch up with a "suspected violator" and as he applied the brakes while approaching an intersection to see which the way the truck had gone, the car slid off the road.

The officer was injured and McGowan and Merrick said he thanked them for their help.