Greater than a dozen folks have been hospitalized after smoke crammed an Higher Manhattan subway station through the afternoon commute Tuesday, officers mentioned.
The unspecified “smoke situation” started contained in the No. 1 prepare station at 191st Avenue and St. Nicholas Avenue in Fort George round 12:50 p.m., the FDNY mentioned.
A complete of 12 FDNY models, together with 60 firefighters and EMS employees, descended on the scene, officers mentioned.
Eighteen civilians suffered minor accidents, principally associated to smoke inhalation – with 16 taken to native hospitals and two refusing medical consideration, the division mentioned.
The FDNY says the trigger and origin of the smoke is beneath investigation, however that it was positioned beneath management inside about an hour.
A person who was on the prepare posted on Fb that the smoke appeared to stem from {an electrical} hearth.
“Hastily, {the electrical} socket exploded and become hearth, filling that facet of the station with smoke, and it was heading in our route,” he wrote. “The entire station was crammed with smoke.”
The straphanger mentioned the state of affairs might’ve turned way more dire.
“That’s the place my survivor abilities that I’ve realized kicked in,” he wrote. “Fortunately, the station has a tunnel that leads us exterior to Broadway. If we didn’t have the tunnel, probably most of us would have suffocated. When all of the smoke was coming in my route it was actual.”
The smoky scene snarled subway service in each instructions between 215th and 145th streets, in response to an MTA alert.
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