An electrical fire erupted on the Amtrak tracks at Penn Station Thursday morning,\u00a0snarling service into\u00a0the major Midtown hub, officials said.<\/p>\n
The cable feeder fire broke out around 11:20 a.m. on the tracks inside the\u00a0highly trafficked station, spreading to the wall, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n
A total of 26 FDNY units responded, drawing 84 firefighters and EMS workers to the scene, the department said.<\/p>\n
An electrical fire erupted at Penn Station Thursday morning, snarling LIRR service, officials said. X \/ @dahrough<\/p>\n
The cable feeder fire broke out around 11:20 a.m. on the tracks. X \/ @GainerTV<\/p>\n
A total of 26 FDNY units responded to the scene at Penn Station. X \/ @GainerTV<\/p>\n
Delays, cancellations and skipped stops were reported on multiple LIRR lines as a result of the fire, according to the MTA\u2019s website. CBS New York<\/p>\n
No injuries were immediately reported.<\/p>\n
The blaze erupted on the Amtrak line, where\u00a0all traffic heading southbound into Penn Station was temporarily stopped, Amtrak Northeast posted on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Service resumed by the afternoon, but Amtrak advised passengers to expect up to hour-long delays for the rest of the day because of rail congestion in the Penn Station area.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, LIRR service was also impacted by the fire, with delays, cancellations and skipped stops reported on multiple lines, according to the MTA\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An electrical fire erupted on the Amtrak tracks at Penn Station Thursday morning,\u00a0snarling service into\u00a0the major Midtown hub,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[194,544,1606,57,141,9,56,63,65,64,7968,19147,58],"class_list":["post-232122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-fdny","tag-fires","tag-lirr","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-penn-station","tag-trains","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}