Five employees of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) were decorated this week after rescuing a three year old autistic boy of the ways of train Metro-North at the beginning of the month.
The employees Shawn Loughran, William Kennedy, Marcus Higgins, Max Chong y Christopher Fraina they were hailed as heroes this April 26 during an MTA recognition ceremony, according to international media reports.
“Everyone’s quick thinking and perfect timing allowed us to get this boy off the tracks and back to his family”summed up Kennedy, one of the recognized ones.
The miracle occurred around 3:15 p.m. on April 6, when the boy’s mother reported him missing to Chong and Frainathen the Metro-North team observed the child trapped at the top of the third rail on the subway tracks. train heading north, near the Tarrytown station, as reported by El Diario NY.
The video shared by the MTA shows the moment in which the train driven by Loughran slows down and a crew member radios for the power to be cut off so that Higgins could jump onto the tracks and retrieve the little boywhich was about 36 meters away.
The employee runs to the center of the tracks and bends down to pick up the child, holding him in his arms and placing him on the ground on the right side of the northbound tracks. A few moments pass in which it is seen that she gets up to the boy and tries to interact with him. When he is safe, he train He slowly resumes walking and stops right in front of the duo, according to recordings shared by transportation authorities.
Once they had the child safe, they took him up to the train and he was taken back to Tarrytown station for evaluation. Upon hearing about the rescue of a child, Chong and Fraina understood that it could be the one reported missing by his mother, so they connected the woman with the child at the station.
“It’s a great feeling to know that we were able to help reunite this family,” Fraina said. “Those minutes must have felt like hours to them. I am very glad that I was in the right place at the right time.”he expressed.
New York Subway train collisions with people on platforms and rails have experienced a 25% increase in recent years, according to MTA data, cited by El Diario NY.
2023-04-28 23:18:00
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