A fire at the Wakefield – 241st subway station left train service suspended for hours.<\/p>\n
Video shared exclusively with News 12 shows flames shooting out of the windows of a signal room of the subway platform. The fire broke out just before 10 a.m. <\/p>\n
Dozens of firefighters responded, forced to carry the firehose onto the elevated platform to put out the flames. As a result, water and garbage were sent raining down onto the road below.<\/p>\n
The MTA says there were no injuries.<\/p>\n
Subway trains were at a complete standstill after fire officials turned off power to all of the tracks. <\/p>\n
The fire was put under control just before 11 a.m., but 2 train subway service was suspended between Gun Hill Road and Wakefield-241st Street until around noon.<\/p>\n
While train service was suspended, riders were advised to take the Bx39 bus service. Many riders told News 12 the changes disrupted their daily commutes.<\/p>\n
“I had to walk all the way and come down here to get the 39 to go down,” Wakefield resident Marcia said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was on my way to class, but I\u2019m going to try to find another way to get there, so hopefully I get there,\u201d Paul Lopez, a Wakefield resident, told News 12 during the subway suspension.<\/p>\n
The FNDY is still investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire at the Wakefield – 241st subway station left train service suspended for hours. Video shared exclusively…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-357104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357104","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=357104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}