WASHINGTON (CNN) -- It's a frightening scenario, almost a staple of action movies: Someone has fallen onto subway tracks, and a train is rumbling into the station. iReporter Stuart Gordon spotted rescuers after a woman fell onto subway tracks in Washington. For a heart-stopping moment, the train is certain to strike the fallen person, until rescue comes at the last possible second. But at a Washington Metro station near the National Mall on Tuesday, it was an all-too-real scenario, and all the more frightening. A 68-year-old woman from Nashville, Tennessee, in Washington for the inauguration of Barack Obama, fell off the platform at the Gallery Place-Chinatown stop.
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Woman, 68, fell off platform at Metro's Gallery Place-Chinatown stop
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Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson, another rider tried to pull her up
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When they couldn't grab her, Swainson helped tuck her under platform
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Woman safely huddled beneath platform lip as train passed
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