NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A fire in a rail yard train car near New York\u2019s Penn Station injured five people and disrupted service for many commuters early Friday, authorities said. <\/p>\n
The fire resulted in train delays in New Jersey Transit and Amtrak rail service into New York and briefly suspended Long Island Rail Road<\/a> service, more than a week after a strike had shut down that system.<\/p>\n New Jersey Transit<\/a> posted on X that it was an Amtrak train car<\/a> that was on fire \u201cin one of the Hudson River tunnels.\u201d It said the fire resulted in \u201coverhead wire damage.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cImpacts are expected to last through the morning rush hour,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n Amtrak posted on X that it suspended its service until at least noon Friday due to maintenance resulting \u201cfrom a now extinguished fire in the New York area.\u201d It said lengthy delays were expected for trains traveling north of New York. <\/p>\n It did not post any information about the fire itself. An email seeking comment was sent to Amtrak. <\/p>\n Fire officials said 100 firefighters responded to the fire early Friday and that five people were hurt. Two of them were taken to a hospital. Their conditions were not immediately known. <\/p>\n Penn Station, underneath Madison Square Garden, can serve roughly 600,000 passengers daily via Amtrak, the New York subway system, New Jersey Transit and the LIRR.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A fire in a rail yard train car near New York\u2019s Penn Station injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6922,288,544,417,5031,1066,22154,9,24,11,10,71633,608,8946,421],"class_list":["post-247660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-amtrak","tag-business","tag-fires","tag-general-news","tag-mass-transit","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-transit","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-rail-accidents","tag-transportation","tag-trending-news","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247660","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=247660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}