{"id":1089,"date":"2015-02-23T20:32:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/four-more-smoke-incidents-occur-in-wmata-metro-system-over-the-weekend\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:08:46","slug":"four-more-smoke-incidents-occur-in-wmata-metro-system-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/four-more-smoke-incidents-occur-in-wmata-metro-system-over-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Four more smoke incidents occur in WMATA Metro system over the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woodley Park, Foggy Bottom, Rosslyn, and L\u2019Enfant Plaza metro stations fill with smoke<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n

The Washington, D.C. metro system saw four more smoke incidents over the weekend of Feb. 20-22. \u00a0Unlike the Jan. 12 Metro smoke incident that left one person dead and more than 80 injured, no injuries related to the most-recent smoke incident were reported. \u00a0Investigators say the smoke occurred due to a variety mechanical failures at each station.<\/p>\n

The first incident took place around noon on Saturday, February 21 at Woodley Park metro station. \u00a0Passengers were evacuated from the station after brake failure caused the platform area to fill with fumes. \u00a0Friction from the metro car\u2019s brakes are believe to have caused the smoke.<\/p>\n

At approximately\u00a08:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 21, firefighters in Arlington responded to reports of fire and smoke on the track inbound to Rosslyn station from Foggy Bottom. \u00a0Investigators say the smoke most likely arose\u00a0from problems with insulation on the electrified third rail.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, February 22, the WMATA Metro system experienced an additional pair of smoke incidents. \u00a0The first occurred at L\u2019Enfant Plaza at approximately\u00a011 a.m. when a mechanical issue with the Metro train car\u2019s brakes caused smoke to fill the station. \u00a0L\u2019Enfant Plaza metro station was the site of the deadly January 2015 D.C. metro smoke incident\u00a0that\u00a0sent over 80 individuals\u00a0to the hospital and tragically took the life of an Alexandria, Virginia,\u00a0woman.<\/p>\n

The latest metro smoke incident took place around 6:30 p.m at Foggy Bottom Metro station on Sunday, February 22. \u00a0A passing metro car driver reported seeing smoke coming from the electrified third rail on the track. \u00a0Fire crews were called to the scene but there was no fire. \u00a0Investigators are saying an electrical arcing event was most likely the culprit. An arcing event was also fingered as the likely cause of the January 2015 L'Efant Plaza smoke event.<\/p>\n

In 2015, there have been a total of five smoke related incidents in the Washington, D.C. WMATA Metro train system. The January incident at L\u2019Enfant Plaza saw the first death on the Metro since 2009 when a pair of metro cars collided at the Fort Totten station, taking the lives of nine individuals.<\/p>\n

The Cochran Firm, D.C. has extensive experience representing victims of D.C. metro accidents, including individuals injured in the January 2015 L'Efant Plaza smoke incident and the 2009 Fort Totten train crash.\u00a0In the Fort Totten litigation, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia appointed David Haynes, the managing attorney<\/a>\u00a0of The Cochran Firm\u2019s Washington, D.C. office, as co-liaison counsel for all of the plaintiffs. (In the Matter of the Fort Totten Metrorail Cases Arising Out of the Events of June 22, 2009<\/em>, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Case No.: 10-mc-00314).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woodley Park, Foggy Bottom, Rosslyn, and L\u2019Enfant Plaza metro stations fill with smoke The Washington, D.C. metro system saw four more smoke incidents over the weekend of Feb. 20-22. \u00a0Unlike the Jan. 12 Metro smoke incident that left one person dead and more than 80 injured, no injuries related to the most-recent smoke incident were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"Four more smoke incidents occur in WMATA Metro system","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[{"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_type":"none"}],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31812,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/31812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}