Smoke Outside Stadium-Armory Metro Station Closes Stations
(Updated at 9:05 a.m.) Smoke from a Metro power substation near the the Stadium-Armory Metro station has closed the stop and the Potomac Avenue Metro station, according to authorities.
The stations closed about 7:30 a.m. when smoke was reported at a Metro-owned traction power substation in a lot near RFK Stadium. No smoke has been reported in Metro stations or tunnels.
Stadium update 4: Power removed. Correcting location, now reported as a traction power substation in RFK lot that IS Metro owned. #wmata
— Metro Transit Police (@MetroTransitPD) September 21, 2015
Stadium-Armory – MTPD out w/DCFD in area of Stadium investigating smoke from power substation. Expect disrupted BL/OR/SV service. #wmata
— Metro Transit Police (@MetroTransitPD) September 21, 2015
Metro is providing bus service between the Eastern Market Metro station and either the Minnesota Avenue or Benning Road Metro stations on the Blue, Orange and Silver lines as the Metro Transit Police and D.C. Fire and EMS departments investigate the smoke.
OR/SV/BL passengers expect delays in both directions, FD activity at Stadium-Armory, station is temporarily closed. 8:33a #wmata
— Metrorail Info (@Metrorailinfo) September 21, 2015
Last month, police, firefighters and paramedics held a drill at the Stadium-Armory Metro station to practice their response to fires and smoke in the Metro system. The simulation was designed to be similar to an incident in January when the L’Enfant Plaza Metro filled with smoke, leaving one Metro rider dead and 84 hospitalized.
Photo via Flickr/NCinDC
