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Ridgewood EMT leaps onto subway tracks to save civilian in life-threatening rescue

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Jan. 27, 2025 By Colum Motherway An EMT from the Gotham Volunteer Ambulance Corps in Ridgewood is being celebrated as a hero after leaping onto subway tracks to aid a civilian who was struck by a train in a dramatic rescue on Friday, Jan. 17. Matthew Tirschwell, a longtime EMT and Manhattan resident, found…