Death at Ruggles [EDIT: Maybe not; news reports say he's being treated.]

[beowabbit]

As I was walking through Ruggles Station to get a Jamaican patty this morning (just a few minutes ago), there was a huge crowd of firefighters, and a few cops and EMTs. I saw that a large cluster of passengers was gathered in a clump between the turnstiles and the escalators, and the escalators were roped off. I asked the vendor if she knew what was going on, and she said that a young guy had jumped onto the tracks and been electrocuted. (Fortunately not hit by a train — that’s really rough on the conductors.)

Just after that, they wheeled the (presumed) body out of the elevator on a stretcher. They had an oxygen mask on him, but there was no sense of urgency, so I’m pretty sure they thought he was dead. *Sigh*.

There were at least 20 firefighters there. I imagine Orange Line service will be delayed for a while.

[Edit: This article says he’s “being treated for serious burns”, so evidently he didn’t die. Hope he recovers.]

Comments

[agaran.livejournal.com]

I did EMT work, also, and have had my own significant exposure to too much death. The hardest thing I had to convince myself of was (1) that things would have been worse had I not been on the scene, and that (2) even if I hadn't been there, this (whatever the tragedy was) would still have happened. It wasn't easy.

[agaran.livejournal.com]

Curious, the link I embedded in this, to http://www.livejournal.com/users/agaran/31714.html, didn't come through.

[gatopreto.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are times that I need to do post-processing even when death is not involved.

Well met, too, as I know a bunch of folks you know.

[agaran.livejournal.com]

Well met, indeed. Glad to hear your comment.