A dramatic rescue after a mother and son tumble onto subway tracks and surveillance footage of a shooter being gunned down outside the Empire State Building are featured in this month’s top EMS videos.
A very lucky boy learning a lesson after getting his head inexplicably stuck in a balcony and a harrowing save of naked man surrounded by sharks round out the most popular videos in the EMS community for August.
 | Commuters save woman and son from train tracks Quick-acting bystanders jump down to retrieve the pair after the mother fell off the subway platform while holding her son.
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 | Surveillance video of Empire State shooting Footage captures the moment when police confront and kill Jeff Johnson as he tries to flee from the Empire State Building. |
 | Motorists rescue woman, disabled sister from burning car Twenty motorists, none of them trained emergency personnel, stop to pull two women from a burning car. |
 | Emergency crew frees child with head stuck in balcony A little boy in China somehow gets his head stuck in a balcony and emergency crews have to use hydraulic pliers to free him. |
 | Naked man rescued as sharks circle him Choppers find an Australian fisherman naked and treading water, seemingly unaware of the sharks around him. |