Late Night Blue Line Fire Results ln Evacuation Of 150 CTA Passengers

By Jon Graef in News on Jan 11, 2014 6:30PM

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Though full service was restored by early Saturday morning, a late night fire on Chicago's Blue Line forced the evacuation of 150 passengers between the O'Hare and Cumberland stops.

Blue Line service has been temporarily suspended between O'Hare and Cumberland due to fire department activity.

— cta (@cta) January 11, 2014

The Sun-Times reports the fire broke out underneath a train headed for O'Hare, and that the city's firefighters put out the fire with relative ease. Still, the passengers on the trains were evacuated, then picked up by a shuttle bus in what was an orderly process, according to Chicago Fire Media.

Relatively small fire under one CTA train car fire did not get into the car orderly evacuation

— Chicago Fire Media (@CFDMedia) January 11, 2014

The Tribune spoke with an eyewitness who said the fire was "intense."

No injuries were reported.