Terrifying moment: A fentanyl-exposed Florida congressman collapses in bodycam footage before being rescued by Narcan

A Florida police officer's body camera has captured the moment he saved another officer from fentanyl exposure – during a routine traffic stop where the officer collapsed after conducting a substance test at the scene.

The attorney identified as Deputy Flagler County Sheriff Nick Huzior is currently recovering — thanks in part to the promptness of his colleague.

The incident happened around 3:45 p.m. Thursday after Huzior pulled over 61-year-old George Clemons for fleeing a hit-and-run accident in nearby Bunnell and veering off State Road 11, resulting in multiple near misses Had led.

Now, after being released on bail despite facing a slew of drunk driving and drug-related charges, Clemons eventually stayed. At that point, police officers found him still in the red SUV, sitting in the driver's seat with the keys out of the ignition and under his legs.

Huzior and other officers immediately spotted a quantity of narcotics in plain sight, as well as an empty Bud Light can and a mini bottle of alcohol, officers said.

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A Florida police officer's body camera captured the moment he saved another officer from fentanyl exposure – during a routine traffic stop where the officer collapsed after texting the scene

The attorney identified as Deputy Flagler County Sheriff Nick Huzior is currently recovering — thanks in part to the promptness of his colleague

The incident happened around 3:45pm Thursday after Huzior pulled over 61-year-old George Clemons for fleeing a hit-and-run accident in nearby Bunnell. Clemons is now facing a litany of DUI and drug charges and is currently out on $24,500 bail, records show

Footage released by the sheriff's office on Friday begins shortly after Clemons denied Huzior's request for a sobriety test, prompting him to test one of the drugs — a powdered white substance — immediately.

Almost immediately, the officer, wearing personal protective equipment but still feeling overwhelmed by the drug that caused an overdose, is seen succumbing to the synthetic opioid, which is more than 100 times more potent than morphine.

“I'm feeling lightheaded,” he is heard saying to Kyle Gaddie in the first person, who can see an array of pills, marijuana, and unspecified powders spread out on the hood of a Clemons, who is already under arrest at the time .

“Call the emergency services,” adds the officer, audibly out of breath.

As he tells Gaddie that he feels light-headed, shaky and losing feeling in his arms and legs, the deputy can be seen losing his balance and goading his supervisor to get out of his car, which he had previously parked in for a traffic stop was.

Knowing the narcotics tested by Huzior could contain fentanyl — a deadly synthetic drug now used by vendors to make other drugs more effective — Gaddie hands out a dose of Narcan, a drug used to counteract the effects of a fentanyl – reverse overdose.

Despite the precaution, Huzior's condition persists for several minutes – prompting Gaddie to give his comrade a second dose.

As this happens, Gaddie is seen crouching steadfastly at Huzior's side, whispering words of encouragement to him.

At one point he asks Huzior how he feels – to which the deputy replies that he is “dizzy”.

“I'm really dizzy,” he says, before finally being taken to a nearby hospital. “My heart is beating really fast.”

The footage begins after Clemons finally stopped at a traffic stop on State Road 11 – and officers found him in his red SUV. Inside, the police found a lot of drugs, pills, alcohol, and other substances. Clemons was tied up for refusing a sobriety test

Knowing that the narcotics Huzior had tested could contain fentanyl — a deadly synthetic drug now used by vendors to mix other drugs — Deputy First Class Kyle Gaddie (seen here) dispensed a dose of Narcan, a drug that reverses the effects of fentanyl overdose

As his comrade continues to suffer the effects of fentanyl exposure, Gaddie is seen crouching steadfastly at Huzior's side, whispering words of encouragement

At one point he asks Huzior how he feels – to which the deputy replies that he is “dizzy”.

“I'm really dizzy,” he says in the clip released by his bosses on Friday, before he was finally taken to a nearby hospital, where he was still recovering on Saturday. “My heart is beating really fast”

Fentanyl – about 100 times more potent than morphine – is responsible for about 100,000 deaths each year in the US, not counting deaths abroad.

Over the past eight years, the opioid has been smuggled into the country in increasing quantities at the southern border – in 2022 around 8,400 kilograms of the overdose-causing drug were seized.

An estimated 325,000 people died in the US during that time from overdoses with synthetic opioids sold in the raided Mexican stores, which experts say almost always consist of fentanyl.

Aside from being far more potent than others on the black market, the drug is also mass-produced by Mexican cartels, who make it from precursor chemicals smuggled in from China and then compress it into pills designed to look like other drugs.

The practice is illegal and has been on federal radar for nearly a year, according to statements from the State Department and other U.S. groups.