This guy is amazing:
Wesley Autrey, 50, jumped onto the subway tracks at a station in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood on Tuesday to help Cameron Hollopeter, who had suffered a seizure and fallen.
Autrey held down Hollopeter’s convulsing body in the track bed as the train passed just centimeters above them. Both were uninjured, but Hollopeter, 20, remains in hospital undergoing tests to discover what caused his seizure.
Autrey, whose knitted cap was brushed with grease and dirt from the train passing overhead, played down his daring act as he accepted the Bronze Medallion — for exceptional citizenship and outstanding achievement — from Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“You see somebody in distress, you help out,” Autrey told a news conference, as he was flanked by his 4- and 6-year-old daughters, who had watched their father jump onto the subway tracks.
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