They arrived like a guardian angel’s answer.
Two NYPD detectives rescued a woman in an angel costume after she fell onto the subway tracks at a lower Manhattan station in the early hours after Halloween, exclusive video shared with The Post shows.
Detectives Brett Devine and Carmelo Stracuzzi were working an overtime shift at the Chambers Street station when the 24-year-old woman accidentally fell from the platform shortly after 1 a.m. on Nov. 1, according to police.
“We heard someone yelling that somebody had fallen onto the subway tracks,” Devine, 36, recalled of the incident at the No. 1/2/3 station.
In the video, Devine can be heard asking his partner for a flashlight, believing it could help them warn the operator of any approaching train.
“At that point, we ran over and I observed a female lying unconscious on the railbed,” Devine said. “She was totally unconscious and I jumped down onto the tracks.”
The woman had landed dangerously close to the electrified third rail, the detectives said.
Devine, a father of four daughters ranging in age from 1 to 19, said the subway platform was much higher than he had expected.
“I couldn’t believe how high the platform was because that’s the first time I’ve been down there,” Devine said. “It’s very deceiving.”
Still, he said, instinct immediately took over.
Devine, who joined the NYPD in 2012, checked the woman for signs of consciousness.
“I kind of gave her a shoulder tap to see if she would wake up, which she didn’t,” he said.
The detectives then heard an announcement that a train was approaching. They could not tell whether it was headed for the downtown local No. 1 track, where the unconscious woman lay, or the express tracks on the opposite side of the platform.
“I remember seeing lights at the end of the tunnel,” said Stracuzzi, 42, who was unsure whether he was looking at an approaching train.
“I’m like, ‘Oh boy . . . we gotta kind of move a little quickly here,’” said Stracuzzi, who joined the department in 2011. “You kind of get tunnel vision.”
The two detectives knew they had no time to waste.
“At that point, I went under the arms and Detective Stracuzzi grabbed the legs and we hoisted her onto the subway platform,” Devine said.
The unidentified woman was limp as the detectives lifted her to safety. They then had to climb out of the 4-foot-deep track bed themselves.
Another officer waiting on the platform helped pull the detectives up.
Two minutes later, a train thundered into the station — but it was traveling on the express track across from them.
“We’re not sure if it was rerouted or not,” Stracuzzi said.
“That’s not an everyday occurrence for us, as far as having someone fall onto the subway tracks,” Devine said.
Devine said a good Samaritan helped the officers carry the woman up the station stairs. Because 911 was overwhelmed following Halloween celebrations, the detectives drove her to a hospital in their own vehicle.
Stracuzzi, who has two daughters, ages 4 and 7, said his older daughter would be thrilled to see video of him helping save a woman dressed as an angel.
“I’m just thankful we were there to help her,” Stracuzzi said. “Who knows what could have happened if we weren’t there?”
The Detectives’ Endowment Association praised the two officers as heroes.
“Detectives Stracuzzi and Devine’s heroic actions say everything about the men and women who carry the gold shield,” DEA President Scott Munro said. “They prove exactly why they’re called the greatest detectives in the world and this union is proud to represent them.”
A police source said it appeared all three people involved were being watched over that night.
“You see those wings on the track from the woman’s costume and can’t help wondering if an angel was looking out for all of them,” the source said.