Your survival could depend on your ability to turn two knobs, pull down an overhead panel and separate two sliding doors.
Perhaps nobody appreciates that more than the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, which offered a demonstration of train car evacuation procedures Tuesday at Tower City Center in light of the August 6 fire on one of the agency’s Red Line trains as it was leaving the West 65th Street station.
Some 27 passengers of an estimated 80 to 100 people aboard the train were taken to four different hospitals and treated for minor injuries, mostly smoke inhalation, according to RTA.
Passengers said the emergency exit doors did not open and some kicked out the train’s Plexiglass windows to escape.
RTA believes the fire was sparked by an electrical malfunction, possibly failure of a line breaker, which acts as the train’s main circuit breaker, according to Mary McCahon, media relations manager.
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