 Image from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | A BART train in the Berkeley hills tunnel filled with fumes Wednesday when its emergency brakes "spontaneously engaged," prompting several passengers to seek medical treatment after being stuck onboard the crippled train for an hour, officials said. The problems started after the westbound Pittsburg/Bay Point line train, packed with 700 passengers, pulled out of the Orinda station and entered the 3.2-mile tunnel. The emergency brakes engaged for unknown reasons, filling the 10 cars with "a tremendous amount of white smoke" and bringing the train to a halt. When the train finally began moving again and pulled into the Rockridge station in Oakland at 9:30 a.m., firefighters treated 11 people for medical problems, nine of whom were taken to hospitals. |
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