Field Training Officer Doug Richards came across the accident scene around 1:30 a.m. on I-26 after a truck and the car collided. He saw smoke and flames coming from the wrecked car’s engine compartment and responded with the fire extinguisher from his patrol unit.
Authorities say the woman suffered a medical episode before she fell on the tracks Monday morning in Brooklyn. Two NYPD officers were walking slightly behind her when she collapsed.
“I walked him through what I was going to do. I told him not to pull me under the water, that I had flotation, that the flotation was sufficient enough to hold him above the water as well."
Once located, police say the woman repeatedly pled for the officers to kill her. Officers were able to restrain her and carry her to safety, outside the home.
Detective Henry Greco and Officer Jason Macaluso pulled the 61-year-old man to safety after he fell onto the tracks from the platform.
The Medal of Valor is awarded to public safety officers who have exhibited exceptional courage, regardless of personal safety, in the attempt to save or protect others from harm. The awards are for acts of bravery during incidents in the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 award cycles.
As smoke poured from the apartment, police directed the woman to toss her children, one at a time, out the window to where officers on the ground would be waiting.
Newly released video of the heroic act reminds Officer Emily Healy how things could have gone badly fast the day she jumped into the water to save a woman.
A group of LAPD officers managed to pull an injured pilot from a single-engine aircraft Sunday just seconds before the plane was struck by a commuter train.
“Before I put my car in park, the mom and the passenger jumped out of the car, was running back to my vehicle screaming ‘My child can’t breathe, she can’t breathe.’ And then I just relied on my training at that point,” Patrolman First Class Jerrid Riley said a week after the 2019 incident.
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