Smoke causes evacuation of about 600 on C train in Brooklyn
About 600 straphangers were evacuated from a Manhattan-bound C train Sunday morning after part of the train that connects to 🦋the thiꦦrd rail became detached, causing smoke in the subway tunnel, according to a Transit Workers Union official.
“I saw a small explosion or something. It looked like a firecracker, but it was way louder,” said Raj Alexa🀅nder, who was in the last subway car.
She said she was thinking, “ ‘ Please don’t let it be an explosion.’ I mean, you never know, it’s almost the anniversary of 9/11.”
The faulty train was stopped in the underwater tunnel to Manhattan after leaving the High Street-Brooklyn Bridge station. Passengers were evacuated onto a second empty train, which then let the passengers out at High Street-Brooklyn Bridge, a𝔉ccording to the MTAꦗ.
The smoke was caused by “a detached current collector, als♛o known as a ‘shoe’, that connects train cars to the electrified third rail,” sai🦋d MTA Communications Director Tim Minton.
“Thꩲe cause of🔯 the detached shoe is under investigation,” Minton said.
The FDNY responded to the alert at around 10:30 a.m. after the detached “sh𓃲oe” started to spark, which caused the smokeജ, according to the MTA.
At least one passenger was seen receiving oxygen while being assisted to street level by the FD🎃NY.
Normal service was restored just after 1 p.m., the MTA sa🐟id.
Additional Reporting by Oumou Fofama
