{"id":979873,"date":"2026-08-04T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/979873\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:28:21","slug":"14-hurt-after-fire-breaks-out-at-astor-place-subway-station-fdny-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/979873\/","title":{"rendered":"14 hurt after fire breaks out at Astor Place subway station, FDNY says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen people were hurt after a fire broke out on a subway vacuum car Tuesday morning at the Astor Place station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters received a call just after 2:15 a.m. about the blaze that sent black smoke billowing from the station. Cellphone video obtained by CBS News New York showed both subway riders and MTA workers fleeing the station.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the fire broke out as a passenger 4 train was entering the station, causing a chaotic scene for those arriving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was smoke coming from down the platform, filling up the whole station, and it got unbearable. And we all started to cough. A lot of people ran outside,&#8221; one rider said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cold-open-astor-place-wcbsimw8-hi-res-still.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cold-open-astor-place-wcbsimw8-hi-res-still.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Smoke was seen coming from the Astor Place subway station after a fire broke out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>The fire reached two alarms, and more than 140 firefighters and EMS personnel responded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Six firefighters and seven MTA workers were transported to the hospital, while another subway worker was evaluated at the scene. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The blaze is causing backups, with all 4 and 6 train service between Grand Central-42nd Street and Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall suspended. An MTA official said they are hoping to restore service before the morning rush.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now we&#8217;re working with New York City Emergency Management, MTA Police and MTA subject matter experts to be able to figure out next steps to remove this train, to bring it to a safe location, and to open up the track,&#8221; said FDNY Assistant Chief Thomas Currao.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourteen people were hurt after a fire broke out on a subway vacuum car Tuesday morning at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":979874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6525,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-979873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-fdny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/979874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}