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The Father Who Jumped Onto the Subway Tracks — Wesley Autrey, New York's "Subway Hero"

In January 2007, construction worker Wesley Autrey leaped onto the New York City subway tracks to save a stranger who had fallen after suffering a seizure. With a train bearing down and his two young daughters watching from the platform, Autrey pinned the man between the rails as five cars passed over them both — and both survived.