US (Washington Insider Magazine) – Five Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) workers were honored yesterday as heroes after miraculously rescuing a 3-year-old autistic baby unharmed from the Metro-North train tracks
Five Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) workers were honored yesterday after miraculously rescuing a 3-year-old autistic baby unharmed from the Metro-North train tracks earlier this month.
Employees Shawn Loughran, William Kennedy, Marcus Higgins, Max Chong and Christopher Fraina were hailed as heroes during an MTA recognition ceremony, Pix11 reported.
“Everyone’s quick thinking and perfect timing allowed us to get this boy off the tracks and back to his family,” Kennedy summarized.
The event happened around 3:15 p.m. on April 6, when the boy was reported missing by his mother to Chong and Fraina. Then the Metro-North crew saw that he was trapped on top of the third rail on the northbound train tracks near the Tarrytown station.
Video released by the MTA showed the train driven by Loughran slowed and a crew member radioed for power to be turned off before Higgins jumped onto the tracks and ran 40 yards to retrieve the boy, a statement said. from the agency.
The team then took him back to the Tarrytown station for evaluation. Hearing about the rescue of a child, Chong and Fraina concluded that it might be the one who had been reported missing and quickly connected him to the mother 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.”
These cases do not always have a happy ending. In fact, New York Subway train collisions with people on platforms and tracks have seen an alarming 25% increase in the past four years, according to MTA data.
This article is authored by EI Diario
