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One Person Dies and 16 Are Injured in a Subway Fire in Manhattan (3 simultaneous fires set)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/nyregion/subway-fire-death.html
The New York Fire Department said reports about the fire, at the 110th Street Central Park North subway stop, came in at about 3:20 a.m.
By Christina Goldbaum and Maria Cramer
March 27, 2020
Updated 10:42 a.m. ET
A subway conductor was killed early Friday after a fire erupted inside a train car at a station along the northern edge of Central Park, officials said.
The fire was reported as a No. 2 train pulled into the station and a transit employee, who was on the train as a passenger, told the conductor that there was heavy smoke and fire in the second car of the train, said Brian McGee, a deputy chief of detectives.
When the train stopped at the station around 3:18 a.m., both workers for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority evacuated passengers. But when emergency workers arrived on the scene the conductor was found laying on the tracks, officials said. He was later pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Police were investigating the fire and believe it may be connected to two other fires in the transit system in Manhattan, one at 86th Street station and another at 96th Street station, that were also reported around 3:15 a.m. Friday.
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The New York Fire Department said reports about the fire, at the 110th Street Central Park North subway stop, came in at about 3:20 a.m.
By Christina Goldbaum and Maria Cramer
March 27, 2020
Updated 10:42 a.m. ET
A subway conductor was killed early Friday after a fire erupted inside a train car at a station along the northern edge of Central Park, officials said.
The fire was reported as a No. 2 train pulled into the station and a transit employee, who was on the train as a passenger, told the conductor that there was heavy smoke and fire in the second car of the train, said Brian McGee, a deputy chief of detectives.
When the train stopped at the station around 3:18 a.m., both workers for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority evacuated passengers. But when emergency workers arrived on the scene the conductor was found laying on the tracks, officials said. He was later pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Police were investigating the fire and believe it may be connected to two other fires in the transit system in Manhattan, one at 86th Street station and another at 96th Street station, that were also reported around 3:15 a.m. Friday.
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3 simultaneous fires??
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