Lifesaving Rescue by LIRR Train Crew and MTA Police


Farmingdale Press Conference
June 19, 2009

On Friday, June 19, LIRR train crewmembers and MTA Police made a life-saving rescue of a customer that was suffering an apparent heart attack on the 7:39 AM train from Penn Station, bound for the U.S. Open in Farmingdale.

Click on the video link to view the press conference detailing this dramatic rescue, where the 65-year old customer was revived using an automatic defibrillator and transported to St. Vincent’s Hospital and stabilized.

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