“It was smoke coming from down the platform, filling up the whole station, and it got unbearable,” one commuter said
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- Fourteen people were injured after a vacuum train caught fire at the Astor Place subway station in New York City early on Aug. 4
- “Units immediately began to deploy handlines to knock down the fire, supply the train’s onboard sprinkler system, and conduct primary and secondary searches,” Assistant Chief Thomas Currao said in a statement
- The fire department said that six firefighters and eight MTA workers were injured during the incident
Fourteen people were injured after a fire broke out in a Manhattan subway station.
On Tuesday, Aug. 4, the New York City Fire Department responded to reports of a fire involving a four-car MTA train at the Astor Place subway station at 2:15 a.m. local time, the FDNY shared in a social media statement.
“Upon arrival, firefighters encountered heavy smoke at both street and station level from the fully involved vacuum train operating below ground,” officials added…