A C train was evacuated at 72nd Street around 9:30 a.m. on Friday because one car had smoke in it, according to FDNY and the MTA.
“On the C train just now, three loud bumps then evacuated in a haze at 72nd st,” tweeted Matt Miller, a passenger on the train. Walking to Broadway 2/3 past fire trucks w/ sirens blaring.”
Other passengers assumed the train was on fire.
My C train was on fire this morning. Happy Friday.
— Hugh Gilmore (@Hgil08) October 7, 2016
@westsiderag Passengers in the back said "Fire. Get off the train" Others told me they felt an impact or "jump" before smelling smoke
— Hugh Gilmore (@Hgil08) October 7, 2016
An FDNY spokesman said they were called at 9:23 because of an “odor of smoke,” and were on the scene at 9:28. The train was evacuated and the FDNY had closed the scene at 9:45 without having found any fire. No one was injured. It’s “undetermined” what caused the smoke.
An MTA spokesman said the smoke didn’t cause a larger impact in service.
File photo of a C train.
When i rode the subways all the cars smelled from smoke. Didn’t stop anyone. Just stopped noticing.
DB, knowing your comments here I doubt you have ever been on a subway in your entire life.
But I know you know a lot about hot air and blowing smoke.:) Roasted!! hahah
need to tune up your insight.
spent fifty years riding subways almost every day.
but you’ve been wronger, so maybe this shows progress.
I know you are but what am I, DB??
Then what am I?????
….and so on and so forth….
don’t flatter yourself
YOU ARE NO dannyboy
What is going on?Yesterday there was a smoke issues on another line.
I must have been on the train directly behind this one. I just missed a downtown train at 81st, and when the next train came it just sat in the station for a good 15 minutes because of a train in front of us.
I was on this train as well. There was no announcement or procedure to follow. Just like the great NYers we are…everyone calmly left the station and found another way to work. I called the emergency phone to find out details and they had no idea that there was a problem. As I was exiting the Metro service people came to investigate. I had to tell them it was the downtown train.
There should be a better system.
there’s an example of someone who is not a New Yorker. “exiting the Metro.”
Then the Metrocard must have been named such for the benefit of non-New Yorkers.
didn’t want to confuse it with the *subway* token that was so popular
Or simply someone who forgot to punctuate. “As I was exiting (comma) the Metro service people etc.” Such a fussbudget!
Seriously. Everyone knows it’s the Tube.
Emergency phone personnel didn’t know anything about
what was going on? This doesn’t give me much confidence should something even worse happen—and this sounds bad enough. Shades of the JFK disaster a couple of months. ago.
Not surprised. The cars on the “C” train are some of the oldest of the fleet.
Fortunately, no one was injured.