PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — SEPTA’s Lansdale/Doylestown Line was delayed for several hours Thursday morning due to a train fire at Oreland Station.
Officials said a brake pad on one of the train’s wheels caught fire. SEPTA workers quickly evacuated 317 passengers, and firefighters extinguished the flames under the train car.
“I had to go under there, the wheel … was about 400 degrees,” said AJ, a volunteer firefighter with the Oreland Fire Company. “We were looking at it with a thermal imaging camera, and it was hot. I was next to it and it was radiating heat off.”…