NEW YORK - Daniel Fitzpatrick, 38, an off-duty emergency medical technician, saved a woman who apparently intended to throw herself in front of a subway train in Brooklyn. The rescue came just a week after 50-year-old Wesley Autrey saved a young man from an oncoming train by placing his body over the teenager in a pit between the tracks. Police say they are concerned because the sensational publicity from the first rescue likely had a copycat effect prompting the second. They fear the latest rescue could spark more imitators. "We worry that every time a would-be hero sees a train about to hit someone, instead of phoning the police like he should, he'll dive on the tracks and try to save the poor fool, thus rendering the police superfluous," said Police Commander Hadley V. Baxendale. "Unfortunately, we have this modern press sensationalism to thank for that. And I don't think we've seen the end of this cycle."
