Video shows moment hero NYPD cops rescue woman in angel wings from subway tracks

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Two NYPD detectives rescued an unconscious 24-year-old woman after she fell onto lower Manhattan subway tracks just minutes before a train arrived.

Two hero NYPD detectives rescued a woman in an angel costume who fell onto the subway tracks at a lower Manhattan subway station in the wee hours after Halloween, video shared exclusively with The Post shows.

Detectives Brett Devine and Carmelo Stracuzzi were working an overtime tour in the Chambers Street station when the 24-year-old woman plummeted from the platform in what cops called an accidental fall just after 1 a.m. on Nov. 1.

“We heard someone yelling that somebody had fallen onto the subway tracks,” Devine, 36, recalled of the incident at the No. 1/2/3 subway station.

Devine can be heard in the video asking his partner for a flashlight because he thought it could help them alert any oncoming train operators.

“At that point, we ran over and I observed a female lying unconscious on the railbed,” Devine recalled. “She was totally unconscious and I jumped down onto the tracks.”

The young woman was perilously close to the electrified third rail, the cops said.

Devine, who’s the dad of four daughters, ages 1 to 19, said the platform was a lot higher than he realized.

“I couldn’t believe how high the platform was because that’s the first time I’ve been down there,” Devine said. “It’s very deceiving.”

Devine, who joined the force in 2012, checked the young woman to see if she was conscious.

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