A car that collided with an Amtrak train in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday created quite the chaotic scene as flames and heavy smoke were seen.<\/p>\n
According to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, at 7:30 p.m., crews received reports of a collision between an Amtrak train and a vehicle along the tracks at Northwest Ninth Avenue and West Prospect Road.<\/p>\n
Fire rescue said callers told them that a vehicle was on fire.<\/p>\n
Once at the scene, crews extinguished the flames, and after boarding the train, no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Video captured flames shooting in the air, with a massive cloud of smoke hanging over an Amtrak train.<\/p>\n
NBC6 spoke to a witness, who wanted to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n
“We heard the train screeching and coming to a stop,” the witnesses said. “Then we looked off, and then we see smoke and fire erupting.\u201d<\/p>\n
There were passengers aboard the train at the time.<\/p>\n
“We could see people running in the train on where the fire was,” the witness said. “So it was pretty crazy. Everything happened so fast.”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s still unclear exactly how the car ended up colliding with the train.<\/p>\n
An investigation remains active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car that collided with an Amtrak train in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday created quite the chaotic scene…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-379097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}