FDNY Rescue 3 Ops at Train Derailment

摘要

On December 1, 2013, at 0722 hours, Fire Department of New York (FDNY) Rescue 3 (Special Operations Command) was special-called to respond to the Spuyten Duyvil section of the Bronx for a reported train derailment with possible civilians trapped. On arrival, just behind the first-due FDNY units, Rescue 3 was confronted with a southbound Metro-North Commuter Railroad (Metro-North) train that had derailed and was thrown across several hundred yards of track, with a wooded area and the waterfront beyond it (photo 1). A temporary command post was set up by the fence line. Metro-North is the second busiest commuter railroad in the United States in monthly ridership, behind the Long Island Rail Road, with service between New York City and its northern suburbs.