It’s only been a few months since the Camp Fire wildfire wreaked havoc on the state of California. Now, a Good Samaritan is being hailed as a hero after he took down a potential arsonist who was trying to start another fire just outside of Los Angeles.

Richard Lazenby was driving home from Easter church services with his wife and kids in their SUV last Sunday when he saw a disheveled man setting fires in the Sepulveda Pass.

“I said, ‘What the eff are you doing?’ He turns and looks at me and says, ‘I’m effing destroying everything,'” Richard recalled.

Richard, however, was not about to let this happen. That’s why he pulled over and tackled the man to the ground.

“We stumbled over into this brush on the side and I finally got on top of him, pinned his arms down and sat on top of him,” he said.

Richard managed to keep the man pinned to the ground for a full fifteen minutes before police arrived on the scene to arrest him.

Richard and his family all remember the Skirball Fire in December of 2017, which was caused by humans cooking illegally. The wildfire forced the Lazenby family to evacuate their home, and none of them wanted to see anything like that happen again.

“I’m proud that I did it,” Richard said. “I’m proud that I was able to hopefully stop more destruction. And that my kids could see that sometimes being a leader and doing the right thing can be dirty work.”

Find out more about this man’s heroic deed in the video below.