Thomas Fischer, an Army veteran who’d previously done a tour in Afghanistan, sprang into action to help one of the victims of the shooting at a Brooklyn subway station.
, using the skills he learned in the military to save the man’s life.
“I saw smoke and thought the train was broken. I walked up the platform, saw the engineer telling everyone to get on the R train,” Fischer recalled. “I introduced myself, asked if they needed help.” “The person I was working on, the tourniquet that they tried was not working. I had a belt, so I used my belt to stop the bleeding, or slow it down enough, and just keep him nice and calm and awake so he doesn’t pass out,” said Fischer, who spent nine years with the military and last served with the Army’s esteemed 10th Mountain Division.
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