Fashion student Alexa Conto nearly lost her life after fainting onto subway tracks in Brooklyn, and she’s now looking for the good samaritans that saved her! Click below for the heroic story.

Melissa Nash

A fashion student who fainted and fell on the subway tracks at a Brooklyn train station Tuesday wants to find the good Samaritan straphangers and a quick-thinking MTA operator she says saved her life.
“I’d like to thank them for everything. I wouldn’t even be here if it wasn’t for them,” said Alexa Conto. “They’re just genuinely nice people. You don’t see that a lot.”
Conto, 20, a college junior, said she felt dizzy while waiting for a D train at the 71st St. station as she headed for her first day of classes at the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising College in midtown about 7:20 a.m.
She rested her head on a support beam and shut her eyes, thinking the feeling would pass as she waited for a Manhattan-bound train to arrive.
“Once I closed my eyes, I think I fainted. I was on the train tracks, and I remember people getting me up,” Conto said of the horrifying ordeal in a phone interview from her bed at Lutheran Medical Center on Tuesday.
The dramatic moments unfolded as a train as a train was rushing toward her from only one station away.
The train’s operator spotted the bodies on the tracks and brought the train to a halt just in time, an MTA spokesman said.
Conto and her family want to find the person or team of heroes who they believe selflessly jumped on the tracks to save her.

“We don’t know know how many, we don’t know who,” said Alicia Conto, the student’s mother. “I wish I did know who because they did such a great thing. This is like a miracle.”
Alexa’s sister Crista saw her injured sibling after she was saved, getting a call from a woman at the station. Crista said she was freaking out” when she got to the station but soon realized a group of “amazing” people, including the train operator, were helping Alexa.
“There was a whole bunch of people there just concerned about my sister,” Crista Conto said. “It’s good to know there are good people out there.”
The Contos said doctors were doing tests to determine what caused Alexa’s collapse.
She suffered a broken foot and will be on crutches for six to eight weeks. She said she’ll have to cut back on work — she’s been juggling three jobs — and may have to take time off from school.
But the lucky young woman was just happy to be alive as she got ready to leave the hospital.
“I have angels on my side,” she said.