Dramatic rescue of elderly woman's fall from escalator caught on video Surveillance video caught the moment when an elderly woman lost her balance and fell from an escalator at a railway station in Chaohu city, east China's Anhui Province. Police officers rushed to the rescue, pressing the emergency stop button of the escalator and helping her up. After a while, the officers escorted the woman and her husband down to the safety ground. Fortunately, she sustained only minor injuries.