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Person injured after falling onto Red Line tracks near Rhode Island Avenue station
WASHINGTON (7News) — A person was hurt after falling onto Metro tracks near the Rhode Island Avenue Metro Station in Northeast, D.C. on Friday, according to city and transit officials.
Shortly before noon, officials said the person fell onto the tracks and was hit. The person was removed from the tracks by D.C. Fire and EMS crews and taken to a local trauma center conscious and breathing, D.C. officials confirmed at around 1 p.m.
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Trains were briefly single-tracking between the Rhode Island Avenue and NoMa-Gallaudet U stations.