{"id":314643,"date":"2026-08-05T21:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314643\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T21:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:27:21","slug":"videos-mta-work-train-catches-fire-at-manhattan-subway-station-14-injured-including-6-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314643\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEOS: MTA\u00a0work train catches fire at Manhattan subway station; 14 injured, including 6 firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/NATS-NY-Subway-train-300x170.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1269607\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An early-morning fire at the Astor Place subway station in Manhattan left multiple people injured and temporarily suspended service on the 4 and 6 lines, which resumed with significant delays. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the FDNY, a fire broke out on a southbound 4 train car at around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials said it was a work train being used to vacuum the tracks. It was not a regular passenger train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eight MTA workers and six firefighters suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to officials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FDNY said at one point over 141 fire and EMS personnel were on the scene, but the situation had since quieted down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A northbound passenger train was pulling into the station at the same time the fire started. All riders were evacuated safely with no injuries reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of 7 a.m., 4\/5\/6 trains were running with \u201csevere delays in both directions after FDNY concluded an investigation at Astor Place,\u201d the MTA said, but service had been improving.<\/p>\n<p>WNYW-TV FOX 5 New York<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/434c50684ae60350f284dc25c8b3e561.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"12 hurt during subway fire at Astor Place, FDNY says\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An early-morning fire at the Astor Place subway station in Manhattan left multiple people injured and temporarily suspended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,5855,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-314643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mid-atlantic-region","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314643","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=314643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}