[Video] Police Save Man From Oncoming Train After He Fell Onto Tracks During Seizure Fit

Two New York policemen risked their lives and jumped onto the subway tracks to save a man from getting hit by an oncoming train in a heroic incident on Sunday, May 16.

As a northbound A train was nearing the station, a 31-year-old unidentified man reportedly had a seizure and fell onto the subway tracks, the NYPD told Fox News.

Transit Officers Christopher Cerny and Gary Lamour from District 2 were patrolling a subway station on 14th Street and Eighth Avenue in lower Manhattan around Sunday afternoon.

During their rounds, they observed a man suddenly having a medical episode and falling onto the tracks as the train was approaching the station. They quickly signaled to stop the train and jumped down onto the subway tracks to help the man.

NYPD had released the body camera footage of the rescue online. In the video, one officer can be seen signaling the train operator to stop while his partner jumped down onto the tracks without hesitation. A man can be seen lying unconscious and motionless on the subway tracks. The officer proceeds to grab the man's arm and lifts him onto the subway platform.

The man was later taken to Bellevue Hospital for treatment. No one was injured in the ordeal and train service was not disrupted, police clarified.

The officers' actions "may have just saved his life," Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said.

Kathleen O'Reilly, the NYPD chief of transit, tweeted in support of the officers.

"A glimpse of how Transit cops saved a man in medical distress yesterday. This life-saving rescue would not have been possible without our officers’ quick actions & the alertness of the @NYCTSubway train operator," she said.

The incident comes as a bit of good news amid a series of subway attacks over the past few days. In one incident, a group of men went on a subway slashing spree that resulted in several injured, even leaving a man blind in one eye. Another incident had a subway passenger getting brutally choked and bitten by an enraged fellow passenger.

Due to the increase in subway crime, the city is deploying 250 additional police officers to the subways, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. The extra police force will increase the number of officers on transit patrols to around 3,250 in number.