One Dead, Dozens Hospitalized After Heavy Smoke at D.C. Metro Tunnel

84 people taken to area hospitals, three in critical condition

By Matthew Stabley, Jackie Bensen, Adam Tuss, Derrick Ward and Darcy Spencer

Tuesday, Jan 13, 2015 • Updated at 12:25 AM EST

One woman is dead, dozens of other people were hospitalized, and three remain in critical condition after the upper level of the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station in southeast D.C. filled with smoke Monday afternoon.

A Virginia-bound Yellow Line train was in the tunnel just south of the station around 3:20 p.m. when it stopped for unknown reasons.

Dozens of people were trapped inside the train's cars as the tunnel filled with thick, black smoke.

"People could barely breathe," passenger Denzel Hatch said. "They had to evacuate us through the tunnel and walk back through the front. No electricity, no visibility, nothing. Couldn’t see anything at first."

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Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #2

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So, WTH is this? One dead and three critical? Just electrical smoke?

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