A utility worker jumped onto train tracks Saturday in New York City to rescue a man who fell just minutes before a train was scheduled to stop at the station, according to multiple reports.
Jonathan Kulig, a 29-year-old engineering supervisor for Consolidated Edison, told WPIX that he spotted a man on the subway tracks Saturday night while waiting for the L train at Third Avenue.
"I realized it was a person and I hear the announcement come on, that the train is going to be arriving in a minute or two minutes – (a) short amount of time," Kulig told the news station.
He jumped onto the tracks from the opposite side of the train stop and made his way to the man. Cellphone video shot by Seattle tourist Parker Van de Graaf, 15, showed the moment when Kulig reached the man.
“Talk to me, what’s happening? You all right?” he asks the man in the video.
"It was very scary," Parker told the New York Daily News. "My mother and I were right there, and the first to see him fall. We were freaking out and asking for help."
In the video, Kulig can be seen picking up the disoriented man and putting him back on the platform before the train arrived.
"The one thing I can completely say that I'm completely confident about is that if I didn't pick him up, that train would have got him," Kulig told WCBS. "There (wasn't) really anybody else that was jumping down to do anything. He probably wouldn't be around."
He told WPIX that he was able to safely navigate the electrified tracks because he took a track safety training class about a month and a half ago.
The man was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
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