The day after saving a 68-year-old tourist who fell on a Washington, D.C. train track on Inauguration Day, our hero Officer Eliot Swainson - along with METRO Capt. Tim Kelly and a D.C. transit cop - saved residents from a burning apartment building. Swainson, who has been the media darling from coast to coast this week and has appeared in ...

    His day started at 4 a.m. working a train platform in Washington, but by the end of the day, he was on the national news.    Eliot Swainson, a 46-year-old METRO police officer, was among 100 officers from 18 transit agencies nationwide who were in Washington yesterday to help manage the crowds surging into the ...