(12 Jul 2006)
ABC (WLS)
1. Aerial shot of people being evacuated from underground tunnel following train derailment and fire
2. Aerial shots of emergency crews on scene helping passengers caught in derailment/fire
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Noelle Gaffney, Chicago Transit Authority:
"Operator on the Blue line train northbound in the subway reported heavy smoke and asked for the power to be removed. He then evacuated his train to try and get all passengers out safely. We have power off now, so we are providing a bus shuttle, but there is no blue line service currently."
4. Passengers getting oxygen
5. Woman getting assistance after being evacuated from subway tunnel
6. Emergency crews helping passengers evacuated from subway, pan of woman speaking on mobile phone and crying
7. Woman with oxygen mask being taken in wheelchair to nearby ambulance
8. SOUNDBITE (English): Joel Johnson, Passenger:
"I saw like orange light coming from the car behind me, smoke started pouring in, everybody got the hell off the train. We were walking down on the service way about 500 feet (152 metres) from the emergency exit over there."
9. Various of passengers getting water
10. Passenger with oxygen mask
11. Passengers getting water
12. SOUNDBITE (English): Steve Clausen, Passenger:
"We stopped pretty hard, a few people fell over because it was such a hard break and the lights kind of started flickering and I could smell what seem like burnt breaks or something, and the lights killed. I found out later that there were sparks and fire apparently."
13. SOUNDBITE (English): Christopher Smith, Passenger
"I was standing on the train, I wasn't sitting down, and I heard a loud noise, you could hear this loud reverberation, not an explosion, but more like a crash, and from what I thought in my head it sounded like cars were derailing in the back and apparently that's what happened."
AP Television News
14. Wide shot of emergency crews at scene
15. Various of emergency crews at scene
16. Emergency crews outside makeshift medical tent
17. Wide shot of emergency crews outside medical tent
STORYLINE:
At least two people were critically injured when a train derailed and started a fire during the evening rush hour in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday.
The fire filled a subway tunnel with smoke, forcing dozens of soot-covered commuters to evacuate.
Evacuations began after the last car of an eight-car commuter train slipped off the tracks and material beneath the train caught fire, a Transit Authority spokesperson said.
Passengers were moved to safety within an hour.
At least 120 passengers were taken to hospitals, primarily for smoke inhalation, a fire department spokesperson said.
Most were in good or fair condition, officials said, but at least one hospital reported two patients in a critical condition.
The train had just left the downtown Clark and Lake station when the operator realised there was a problem and stopped the train.
The operator called for power to the train to be cut, then led passengers out of the cars and through the smoky subway tunnel to an emergency exit, where they climbed to the street above.
Investigators were searching for the cause of the derailment and fire.
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