Snippet:The fire involved creosote-soaked railroad ties, said fire officials. What ignited the fire is under investigation, but Langford said the railroad ties do occasionally catch fire during the summer heat.
"It's more common on the elevated trains," Langford said. "It's rare on the subway but it does happen occasionally," he said.
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Asshats! It wasn't too much warmer than 80 degrees today.
That is not HOT!
And...it is a 'SUBWAY', below ground by at least thirty feet, where the temperature is considerably less than above ground.
CTA: Are you so certain this was not an attack?
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UPDATE:
Confusion at Red Line subway fire that injures 19
Snippets:
Andrew Schad was on his way home Sunday, traveling north on the Red Line after a late lunch downtown, when the train began to fill with smoke.
Some seated beside him began to cough and choke, and Schad put up the rim of his collar to cover his mouth. By the time the train reached the next stop at the Clark/Division station, so much smoke had consumed the underground station that passengers were fleeing for the exits.
"We were given no instruction. We didn't really know what was going on," said Schad, 23.
"I never saw flames, but there was a lot of smoke. Visibility was really bad."
"The smoke was so thick you couldn't see across the aisle," said passenger Dillon Johnson, 23. "We all started to sit down on the floor where the smoke wasn't as bad."
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QUESTION: Is the City of Chicago (that would be you, Dick'em Daley!) really PREPARED for any kind of attack? (This incident has 'jihad test' written all over it!).
