{"id":409984,"date":"2026-09-25T04:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409984\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T04:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:28:09","slug":"25-people-evacuated-after-amtrak-train-to-miami-catches-fire-in-baltimore-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409984\/","title":{"rendered":"25 people evacuated after Amtrak train to Miami catches fire in Baltimore County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/h8prdf0i2dzrojry.jpg\" alt=\"Nor\u2019easter cancels Oceans Calling Friday; 25 evacuated after Amtrak train catches fire \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/h8prdf0i2dzrojry.jpg\" alt=\"Nor\u2019easter cancels Oceans Calling Friday; 25 evacuated after Amtrak train catches fire \" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-a3924c54=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ESSEX, Md. &#8211; Twenty-five people were evacuated after an Amtrak train caught fire in Essex, Maryland, on Thursday evening, according to Baltimore County Fire officials.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTTG\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Amtrak Train 97 was headed from New York to Miami, Florida, when flames and smoke were reported on the underside of one of the ten cars, company officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Crews responded to the area of Canberra Drive and Waterview Way around 6 p.m. The train was stationary and train traffic in the area was halted as crews addressed the fire.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials said the fire was extinguished around 6:30 p.m. and the 25 evacuated passengers were returned to train cars that were not affected by the flames.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">At least two people suffered minor injuries, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The train was inspected before a total of 189 passengers re-boarded, and it continued south around 7:30 p.m., according to Amtrak officials.<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak train from New York to Miami catches fire in Baltimore County <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from Amtrak and Baltimore County Fire officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/tag\/us\/md\/baltimore-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/tag\/us\/md\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESSEX, Md. &#8211; Twenty-five people were evacuated after an Amtrak train caught fire in Essex, Maryland, on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[158075,58747,123,125,124,115,628],"class_list":["post-409984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-baltimore-county","tag-md","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409984","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=409984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}