On Sundays I give praise to someone who has acted courageously or acted on principle. However, different from a typical Sunday piece, today’s piece is about individuals whose names I do not know.
From Epoch Bright:
Back on May 14, 2024 bystanders at the 3 Avenue-149 Street subway station saw the man disabled and in distress. Prone on his back, the distressed man was “experiencing a seizure” and “had fallen onto the subway tracks.”
At around 5:30 pm, the bystanders flagged down help from NYPD officers of the 47th Precinct assigned to the turnstiles at the northbound platform.
The man had fallen onto the subway tracks, and was only inches away from the third rail, with an oncoming train rapidly approaching the station. Despite the imminent dangers, the officers sprang into action & without hesitation pulled him off the tracks.
Footage from the scene posted to X by the NYPD shows the officers springing into action to assist the male, seen lying across the tracks immobile. One officer gained access to the subway via an emergency exit opened by a bystander; another was seen hopping the turnstile.
Despite the imminent danger of the incoming train, the department tells the newspaper, the “officers quickly jumped to the roadbed and with help from MTA security personnel and good Samaritans, safely rescued the male back to safety.”
Pedestrians at the station aided them in getting the fallen man back onto the platform. One of the officers nimbly made it back up himself, but another is seen in the footage making several attempts to no avail. NYPD told us his “gun belt kept getting stuck on the edge of the platform preventing him from climbing back up.” With the help of his partner and bystanders, he soon successfully climbed out of harm’s way.
The man who had fallen and suffered a medical emergency was taken by emergency medical services to Health + Hospitals/Lincoln and, according to police, is in stable condition.
Meanwhile, over 70,000 viewers witnessed the rescue on X. Many heaped praise on the officers involved.
One comment on X summed it up nicely, “Unbelievable how they put their lives on the line everyday… like it’s nothing… it’s just what they do.”
Congrats to the officers of the 47th precinct.
7/7/24