Guardian Angels resume New York City patrols after subway burning death: 'Never seen it this bad'

"We're covering the actual trains from front to back, walking through the trains and making sure that everything is okay," he said. "We're doing this constantly now. Starting today, that's going to be our complete focus because the subways are out of control."

The group was incentivized after an illegal immigrant was arrested for allegedly setting a woman on fire in a subway car where she ultimately burned to death. Since then, Sliwa claimed they have received requests from "hundreds" of people to offer services.

"We're going to have to increase our numbers, increase the training and increase our presence as we did back in 1979," Sliwa said.

According to Sliwa, 150 members will begin patrolling the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station where the woman was killed. They plan to provide wellness checks and water to homeless people and other emotionally disturbed passengers while reporting issues to the NYPD.

In the meantime, he emphasized his hopes that his group would inspire New Yorkers to be more than bystanders.

"There's so many trains that come in and out of here," Sliwa said. "It's the perfect place because it reminds people that nobody did anything a week ago. Nobody intervened. Nobody pointed to the cops and said, 'This is the guy.' Even the cops didn't do anything."

"It was an example of people just not getting involved," he said. "And we're here to say, 'You see something, you say something.' You got to do something."