[Cabrera:] This week on "Beyond the Call," a police officer in Miami comes face to face with man trying to blow up an underground gasoline storage tank. Their violent confrontation was all caught on camera. CNN's Ed Lavandera shows us what happened.
[Ed Lavandera, Cnn Correspondent:] On an October night in Miami, Dominic Jean tried setting fired to an 8,000-gallon underground storage tank at this gas station next to the Miami International Airport. Surveillance shows the smoke smoldering as Jean grabs a gas pump and starts dousing the ground.
[Ofc. Mario Gutierrez, Miami-dade County Police Department:] It scared me because I thought, wow, we're going to die.
[Lavandera:] That's Miami-Dade County police officer, Mario Gutierrez, who happened to be patrolling the area, racing in, jumps out of his car, hits the emergency shut-off to the gas pumps, then finds himself standing over a simmering time bomb, unsure if the gas tanks would explode.
[Gutierrez:] There would have been a massive chaos. They would have thought it was terrorism. Who knows? They wouldn't have been able to talk to me because I would have been nothing but vaporized.
[Lavandera:] Gutierrez tried stopping Jean with a taser but it doesn't work. Jean starts wildly trying to stab Gutierrez with a knife and a screwdriver.
[Gutierrez:] He came for my throat and I blocked it.
[Lavandera:] Gutierrez falls to the ground. Jean viciously swings at him more than 20 times.
[Gutierrez:] That was a fight to the death and only o person was going to walk away from that.
[Lavandera:] Gutierrez was stabbed about a dozen times but he's able to briefly kick the man off just long enough to grab his gun, firing five times, killing Jean on the spot.
[Gutierrez:] I never heard the gunshots. All I heard was the clinking of the shell casings hitting the ground.
[Lavandera:] It only lasted 30 seconds, but dealing with the emotions hasn't always easy.
[Gutierrez:] I felt like like I failed. I was I need to know that I put up a fight, that I fought this guy, because I didn't remember. I don't no recollection of it. So that really bothered me.
[Lavandera:] These days, Officer Gutierrez patrols the Miami airport alongside his hero. [on camera]: So who are these guys we're going to go see?
[Gutierrez:] You'll see, one, Juan Leon, who saved my life.
[Lavandera:] It was Officer Juan Leon who found Gutierrez laying on the ground bleeding that night.
[Ofc. Juan Leon, Miami-dade County Police Department:] When I pulled up, I knew he was he trouble. His brown shirt was completely covered. It was just red.
[Lavandera:] Leon raced his friend to the hospital just in time to save his life.
[Gutierrez:] He's my brother. He's my brother.
[Lavandera:] That's the unbreakable bond of officers on the front lines. Ed Lavandera, CNN, Miami
[Cabrera:] Tough story to watch. Amazing video, but he's OK. NEWSROOM continues right now. Top of the hour.