Dimas Pinzon was called a hero this summer after he lept onto the tracks (note: not recommended) in order to save a man who had slipped off the platform at the Virginia Square-GMU Metrorail station as a train was oncoming. ARLnow.com managed to obtain the surveillance video of what happened — and its a wild piece of footage.

Do read this rather amazing account of how D.C. resident Kevin McDonnell pulled a man from a burning car near the National Cathedral on Sunday, courtesy WaPo reporter Matt Zapotosky.He broke down the trees blocking the man’s door, then pulled him bodily from the car. Flames and smoke hampered his efforts; at one point, McDonnell’s own jacket caught on fire. “Clearly the biggest concern, and why I don’t think anyone else approached the car,…

Houston Transit Authority volunteer Eliot Swainson, left, who came to the aid of a passenger who had fallen on the tracks this morning, gives directions to another Metro passenger. We reported this morning that a woman fell on the tracks on the Red Line to Glenmont at the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station around 9:30 a.m. DCist has now learned that the woman narrowly avoided being struck by an oncoming train — largely due to…

Ezra Klein reports, via the Internet Food Association, that last night, Tom Colicchio (he of Top Chef and craftsteak) swooped to the rescue of cookbook author Joan Nathan, performing the Heimlich Maneuver at a much-needed moment. The big save happened at a benefit for D.C. Central Kitchen and Martha’s Table, where luminaries of the food world milled about and showed off their skills. Colicchio was modest, Klein reports. ““I just happened to be nearby,”…