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1 Reported Dead, 84 Hospitalized After Smoke Fills Washington Metro Station - Live Feed
Local NBC, FOX, and CBS stations are confirming earlier reports of smoke (so far of an unknown origin) which filled L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station in Washington D.C. this afternoon. Early reports suggested minimal injuries but NBC Washington now confirms one woman died and 84 have been hospitalized. The cause of the smoke remains under investigation.
Live Feed (via Fox)
One woman died after the upper level of the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station filled with smoke Monday afternoon.
Eighty-four people were hospitalized after the fire at one of the busiest stations in the rail system is out, but the cause remains under investigation.
One train was in the tunnel when the smoke was reported about 3:20 p.m., and the first concern was attending to those passengers, Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said.
Evacuations were completed before 5 p.m., according to Metro Transit Police.
Firefighters gained access to the tunnel at one of the evacuation points at Ninth Street and Maine Avenue SE. One firefighter was taken from that location in an ambulance.
D.C. Fire and EMS set up a decontamination center for its firefighters who went into the tunnel.
The FBI is assisting Metro Transit Police in determining a cause, which is standard procedure for incidents in the capital region.
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WMATA says it still does not know the source of the smoke. A District of Columbia fire department spokesman says firefighters are on the scene but did not immediately find a fire.
Transit police say NTSB is launching an investigation into the incident.
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And inside the train...
D.C. Metro train evacuated at L'Enfant Plaza for filling up with smoke - http://t.co/ix3eny6W2e pic.twitter.com/XtbHDhU83i
— Boston (@SunTimesBOS) January 12, 2015
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It can only be ISIS, funded by Putin.
Or the Norks, stepping up their game after hacking Sony.
<- iris scan when you enter metro
<- iris scan when you leave house
84 hospitalized.... Ca-ching!
Those ambulances are bringing lawyers TO the scene.
Kiss your last rights bye-bye!
what rights?
who was the politician smoking an ISIS Joint in the DC Metro?
Gotta watch that Choomwagon, bitchez.
"The cause of the smoke remains under investigation"
Uh, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess: "Fire."
Prolly,
but Choomie's in da hood.
It was L'Enfants Terribles, duh! (proper french is apparently Les Enfants Terribles...)
Be calm.
Carry on.
who named it that and why?
i think tits, i mean it's breast, i mean best explained boob i mean by, not knockers nor knickers, not to say nipples i mean taut, screw it man just google it
My thoughts exactly.
We smoked out some folks...
By the Brits during the MI5 funded IRA campaign.
Because it was a farce as was the whole Carry On movie series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_Camping
L'Enfant was the architect/city planner that designed D.C.
May 33s be upon you all this day.
http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2011/03/lenfant-was-mason.html
Just a few ghouls ...
Our leaders must show strength in this time of trial. We must bomb, invade, and occupy some nation, unrelated to this incident, somewhere on the other side of the planet, for more than a decade.
Government employees. For comparison, the Santiago de Compostela rail disaster (79 dead) vs. the 777 that went cartwheeling at SFO. Of course the SFO numbers were 50% inflated, by government "activities" around the incident.
No passports found...so, fire it is.
Barry was smoking pole with extra enthusiasm today.
we f*cked some folk today. But they knew they were offering up their being to promote good. They knew the were sacrificing for the greater good or greater power.
These folks worked hard and gave it up for America. They stood tall for this President, and would offer up more in Sacrifice. They stand tall in the Saddle. Give them a hand.
We smoked out some folks.
Sheeeit!
I had a Chevy Impala that put out way more smoke than that.
How about a VW Diesel with a bad glow plug on a cold morning.
Commence Operation Clusterfuck
They got the smoke right now lets hope they can get the mirrors right as well.'
Dang i wanna vote twice.
With all the smoke being blown out of asses in DC, this is going to be hard to nail down.
Boehner's tanning bed must have started a grease fire.
If Bhoaner isn't careful around that thing, he'll end up as a stiff. A grease fire would sizzle him like a grilled cheese.
Foreman grill, it's about scale.
We cancer-ed some folks.
Impossible. Metro is a smoke free zone.
Oooooh, burn! Kim Jong Un is looking at a serious fine.
Hey now, don't forget about Iran.
I'm going with the Amish on this one.
I think they've finally had enough, I know I have.
Honey Boo Boo let one rip and it scorched some thigh
The Amish decided to use modern technology?
The 1st Bella Amish shock army ! Forward! Hope and horse shit
"The 1st Bella Amish shock army ! Forward! Hope and horse shit"
May I frame that?
Touche'
hey now, not horse shit, jumbo chocolate skittles
Do your worst sir
I was thinking over the fireplace would be nice.
I wrote yours down
New video out that everyone needs to see called "When the Amish Attack !" Turns out they use a fairly heady attack technique, envisioning in their mind that you are a big milkweed plant in the garden ! Damn Scythe hurts like a son of a bitch when they wack away at your ankles. Recommended counter measure is just a good set of ankle weights and repeating the phrase "I am not a milkweed" over and over...
Monarch butterfies are becomming extinct because milkweed is becoming harder and harder for them to find on their flight patterns.
Damn those Amish.
Thats what happens when you ony have an eigth grade edumacation !!!
8th grade, maybe, but a PhD in life skills.
Politicians are immune from this type of event. They can live with their heads up their asses .... indefinitely.
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Hold on just a second, there. If it's ISIS, it's funded by Vichy DC.
During intermission between this act and the next, you should go out to the lobby and pick up a program. They are immensely helpful in keeping track of the cast of characters and the gangs to which they belong.
I thought subways were a smoke-free zone.
Assuming the fire/smoke is a political act, you can assume that the perp falls somewhere in the constellation of ISIS - Putin - Tea Party Patriots - Black Panthers - Homeland Security.
These days, the majority of the world has motive to see DC burn and bleed. So, here's to opportunity and means!
The above is intended purely as satire, and no actual harm to any person is intended or advocated. May God richly bless all those who serve in the NSA!
Or Libertarians funded by Alternative Media.
Shit, left my butt somewhere around here, where the fuck is it now?
OK, who left their pop-tarts in the microwave?
NORTH KOREA ! strikes again
pigboy's revenge
No passports found at the scene? That's going to make an investigation very tricky.
Just a trail of breadcrumbs to the Russian embassy.
.
That's exactly what they want you to think. However, under a magnifying glass, you'll see that those crumbs are actually bits of dried kimchee.
Damn Muslims and ISIS!
The banksters need to repay us.
/s
Smoking Amtrak train?
"L'Enfant Station" ??? Thats french for child or infant.
Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant; August 9, 1754 – June 14, 1825) was a French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the layout of the streets of Washington, D.C., the L'Enfant Plan.
He is named after a baby ?
Yes
No he was a baby. "Cried all the time.". Great architect though.
Napoleon on the other hand...
The French eat vichyssoise, snails, cocks comb and rooster feet, and let's not forget horse,
and your worried about a name?
Named for Pierre L'Enfant. Froggie who drew the plans for DC and all those friggin' traffic circles.
Overtime. No budget
We gassed some folks...
That smoke could contain all kinds of nastiness. Chemical weapon? Doubtful. Bio? Doubtful but more likely. Electrical fire? Most likely.
Amtrak...
What's the real story. I read ZH for the real story, not MSM. Seems like I will be turning on the stupid box. What gives?
resist the temptation!
go outside tonight,
and gaze at the stars.
Amen.
Film at eleven.
If you are a writer or blogger... you will wait to confirm facts.
- MSM is a Government Operation, but sometimes bullshit is spread around the Associated Press or other Media Networks.
Asshole.
Just a reader. CNN talking nonsense, what else is new? Just looking for more real/true facts. Could care less what you think. :)
WTF is going on, Damn 2015 is crazy so far
end of western world
L'efant Plaza and that whole area south of the Mall is the heart of bureaucratic D.C. More bureaucrats per square block than anywhere else on earth, I'd bet.
Except for Brussels or the UN.
A lot of the federal infrastructure is outlying, like the Pentegon for instance. But I was a motorcycle courrier in D.C. many moons ago, and I can tell you that you've got to see that particular plaza to get what I'm talking about. Block after block after block of forbidding-looking hulks of buildings -- all of them offices for government apparati of multifarious forms and descriptions. Security was tight back then, I can only imagine what it is like after 9-11. You can get a feel for the place tooling around on Google Map street view. It's unbelievable, seriously. Your tax dollars at work... The engines of our destruction heard humming...
Several of the 'Ugliest buildings in DC' from a few months ago are there.
HQ for HUD, DOT, and HHS among others.
Energy Dept, FAA, Voice of America......on and on
Unlimited number of actor and participants in a Government Exercise.
- Nothing to see here
Prime terrritory for slack jawed poorly dressed mass transit subsidized federal employees. Did you know that federal employees are eligible for hundreds of dollars per quarter in direct payments for using mass transit? Your tax dollars paying the enforcers.
Any old excuse to trample each other to death.......
OMFG, it's ISIS!!!!!!!!!AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Cue the army of fat poorly trained cops with poor muzzle and trigger discipline stomping puppies and kicking down doors. Any doors.
It's for the children.
thats enough. we need a federal law against smoke
Maybe if they spent a few bucks on ventilation fans versus trillions on endless wars.
Most of what goes on in Washington is all about smoke and mirrors. The mirrors will come later.
Obama fiddled (with his golf clubs), while Washington burned.
I think the smoke represents the publics trust and believe in anything the govt tells them has gone up in flames.
Let something wake these sheep up. I'm so tired of hearing the screaming of the lambs. They just stand there and don't run away. They just line up and willingly let themselves be slaughtered.
Man I'm craving fava beans for some reason.
And a nice chianti?
Glad I don't have to travel that anymore.
Her name was Roberta Paulson.
Her name is Roberta Paulson.
Nothing to worry: just an ISIS militant smoking narguile (chicha).
Fox reporter, No physical injuries per say, just inhalation problems.
Oy Vey
We all know whom yesterday's tats belonged to.
The question is whose today's tits these are.
L'Enfant Plaza. Could it be more obvious than that?
What a way to start the week.:
- ISIS "hacked" CENTCOM Twitter account.
- Smoke filled L'Enfant Plaza Metro in DC.
And we still have 353 days to go.
Gopher bombs.
We smoked out some folks...
They did just legalize weed there in DC, didn't they?
Boy these motherfuckers in D.C. wants some major distraction(s) with the "cherry on top" being a World War!
Darth Soros is probably rehearsing in his bunker trying to figure out the latest linkage for ISIS/ISIL being Russian!!!
Wake the fuck up you stupid American bitches!
Je suis "Bastille Day" pour les Etats-Uni! Only thing that will save us and the rest of this planet at this point!
The NTSB gubmint employees looked pissed they were pulled out of Strabucks, Outback, etc to do some work.
Actually politicians in DC have an entirely independent subway system for themselves.
Maybe they're trying to smoke out ISIS cells in DC by cooking bacon in the subways.
Not a bad idea!
I grew up in D.C. in the 50s, and then it was a nice little segregated Southern town. I don't recognize the place now...the foreigners and Keishas are pretty much in charge. I must say, Obama really fits right in.
Glad I'm 3000 miles out of that Metroland concrete swamp.
Fox news is running a jihadi video, or a "Whitehouse Press Conference" as they insist on calling it.
Let's see. It is in Washington D.C. and they say it looks like smoke and is smoke so it must be uh clear air in the tunnel. That's it they are saying and reporting on clear air in the tunnel or clear air in the the the Air. The report is from Washington D.C. on clear air in the air.
Hmm that usta be my stop...at least the transportation department doesn't have to go far in fucking up the investigation
Oh, those wacky Rastafarians. Ya gotta love 'em, mahn.
"Transit police say NTSB is launching an investigation into the incident."
I thought NIST and the Park Service were our investigative arms of choice!
How many millions will that cost?
Always nice when something happens that it's not based on subterfuge and in this case was a "bad transformer" that was the cause and not ISIS/ISIL or Russia!
Smoke without a source? Sounds like financial trickery to me.
obama bong
used to be homeless setting fires in amtrak tunnels...
it's bush's fault