Fire on the Orange Line at DTX

Another fire earlier this morning struck the plagued Orange Line, this time at Downtown Crossing.

Fox 25 has video of the scene, as well as some passenger accounts of getting trapped on board the train and attempting to get the doors to open via the emergency pulls (perhaps more OL door issues to look into?).

Sounds like it was an issue on-board the train rather than in the station, which also may not bode well for the aging fleet of Orange Line cars...

Fire at Park Street Over

News this morning of another Green Line fire, this time at Park Street.

The Boston Fire Department ordered all electricity shut off, but the fire was apparently out quickly and service has been restored. Sounds to me like an electrical fire, not unlike others that have occurred here and other underground stops on the trolley line.

WBZ has reported that the station was evacuated around 11:15 this morning, but less than an hour later service is back to normal.