SEPTA officials and Philadelphia Fire Department medics rushed to respond to a patient who suffered cardiac arrest Friday afternoon on a subway at the Market-Frankford line's 13th Street Station.
SEPTA Police Chief Thomas Nestel commended the transit police, firefighters and medics for their swift assistance in the incident.
SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch said there were no immediate updates on the condition of the patient. He added that while unfortunate incidents like this do happen on occasion, in this case SEPTA officials and medics were able to rush to the patient's assistance.
"They always give an extraordinary effort," Busch said. "We can always count on them. It's challenging to treat someone on a train, but from SEPTA's side, all of our operators are trained to deal with these situations and it was deployed successfully today."