<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=01Hwh6_0wD2ggOP00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=01Hwh6_0wD2ggOP00" width="1320" height="743" >SEATTLE — A man in crisis is alive, thanks to Seattle police officers who rushed to cover all bases when they were dispatched to this situation near the King Street Station.The 57-year-old, in crisis, was near the edge of an overpass with a myriad of train tracks directly below him.Police body camerasshowed officers establishing a dialogue with him.“I want to help you, and I need you to hear me when I say that,” one officer could be heard on that video.“They were talking to him up top, and he was talking back, and he was kind of pacing around and moving,” Seattle Police Department Officer Shannon Brown told KOMO News. Brown was one of the officers on this call who ran down to the tracks below, just in case.<img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=24c3oZ_0wD2ggOP00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=24c3oZ_0wD2ggOP00" width="648" height="365" >“At one point, he fell and hit the ground, so we started to run across the tracks. As soon as he hit the ground, we saw the lights, and the train horns started blaring,” Brown explained. But how could that be? Dispatch had told them that all train traffic on those tracks had been halted.“But the last one that’s right next to the one, that unfortunately was not stopped, so just kind of a mistake, but it happens, and we just try to do the best we can,” said Brown.Officer Brown and others pulled the 57-year-old away from the active track with no time to spare.“As a train was coming by, we started rendering aid to him and checking him, comforting him and telling him that the firefighters were right on the other side of the train and as soon as it passes, he’s going to be OK,” explained Brown.Thankfully, he survived, a better outcome than the call Officer Brown had just left.“This one was a woman that had committed suicide by jumping seven stories off her balcony, and so when we got there, she was already gone, and firefighters said there’s nothing else that could be done,” said Brown. He said he was just finishing paperwork on that call when he was called to the railroad tracks.<div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TCpc9MCcNZs?feature=shared" frameborder="0" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div>“So to be able to get the second chance to go to this one and intervene just meant a lot,” said Brown. He explained to KOMO News that Seattle police officers respond to more crisis intervention calls than people realize.“The main message that people should know is just giving police a chance to talk to you because we’re gonna try to talk you off the ledge first, and if you still go through your decision, the next thing we’re going to do is try to make sure that you live through it,” said Brown.Brown explained that he’s had at least 60 hours of mental health and crisis intervention training. He explained that officers put that training and experience to use every day.“Seattle police officers are doing stuff like this all the time. I work with more people who have saved somebody’s life than haven’t. Whether that’s patching a bullet hole or stab wound or I’ve had coworkers that have pulled people from burning cars,” said Brown.While officers may do this every day in the line of duty, Brown encourages anyone, and everyone to take action when they can to help another human.“The biggest thing you can do is just check on people and try to get some kind of connection from them because the minute you talk to somebody and just talk, you have no idea what kind of difference it can make,” he said.Brown said some so many people are lonely and need that connection.</div></body>

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Heart-stopping rescue: SPD officer pulls man to safety seconds before train arrives

SEATTLE — A man in crisis is alive, thanks to Seattle police officers who rushed to cover all bases when they were dispatched to this situation near the King Street Station. The 57-year-old, in crisis, was near the edge of an overpass with a myriad of train tracks directly below him.Police body camerasshowed officers establishing a dialogue with him.