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We Love DC reports on some more people who leaped onto Metrorail tracks to help a person who had fallen off the platform. A man in a motorized wheelchair slipped onto the tracks at the Anacostia station last night — but four people quickly sprung into action and, with some help, managed to free him.

Yesterday evening around 7:45pm, Metro passengers at the Anacostia Metro station saw something that every Metro rider dreads: they saw a man fall from the raised platform and onto the tracks below.  To make matters worse, this man was in a motorized wheelchair and unable to help himself get free.  Four riders jumped to the tracks below, according to our source who preferred not be named, and began to help get him back to safety.

They were able to get the attention of the inbound Green Line train and were successful at summoning the station manager. They did require help, though, to get the passenger off the tracks and back to safety. A Metro spokesman confirmed that the man was transported to the hospital with a cut above his eye, and remarked that witnesses said the man strongly smelled of alcohol. Metro stopped all trains near the incident until the EMS responders were able to get him off the tracks and safely into the nearby ambulance.

The report reminds us of this story from January, in which two tourists came to the aid of a wheelchair-bound woman who fell on the tracks at Metro Center. It also proves that there are still people out there willing to endanger themselves to help complete strangers. Though, just to repeat what we said the last time we noted a story like this: hopping on to the tracks is a ridiculously dangerous thing to do, and really shouldn’t be attempted by anyone. Metro recommends using the intercoms to contact the station manager who can stop trains from coming into the station when someone falls onto the tracks.