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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 28 June 2017
Subway train derails, scaring passengers and injuring dozens

including broken signaling said he didn’t know if a
equipment and chunks of passenger had pulled the
concrete, were left in the emergency brake. “This, to
train’s wake. Passengers on the best of my knowledge,
the A train said it suddenly does not look like a failure
jerked and began shaking on the part of equipment,
violently as it approached does not look like a failure
the station at 125th Street on the part of the track it-
and St. Nicholas Avenue. self,” Lhota said. The derail-
“We started seeing sparks ment came after a winter
through the windows. Peo- and spring marked by me-
ple were falling,” said pas- chanical failures, power
senger Susan Pak, of Engle- outages and several epi-
wood Cliffs, New Jersey. sodes in which passengers
Sparks from the skidding were trapped on stuck
train briefly ignited gar- trains for an hour or more.
bage on the track, but Some state lawmakers de-
there was no serious fire manded that the Legisla-
and the train stayed up- ture take up emergency
right, said Joe Lhota, chair- funding for the system in a
man of the Metropolitan special session scheduled
A commuter exits a closed off station after a subway train derailment, Tuesday, June 27, 2017, Transportation Authority. for Wednesday.
in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. A subway train derailed near a station in Harlem on The cause was under in- Jack Cox, a software de-
Tuesday, frightening passengers and resulting in a power outage as people were evacuated vestigation. Lhota said the veloper, said he felt a
from trains along the subway line. The Fire Department of New York said a handful of people emergency braking sys- “large thump” and heard
were treated for minor injuries at around 10 a.m. It said there was smoke but no fire. Delays were
reported throughout the subway system. tem on the train triggered, and felt the train grinding
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) but it was unclear why. He for as long as 30 seconds.q
By DAVID PORTER reliability problems.
Associated Press Nearly three dozen people
NEW YORK (AP) — A sub- suffered minor injuries in
way train derailed Tuesday the derailment, which hap-
as it entered a station, toss- pened in Harlem just be-
ing people to the floor, forc- fore 10 a.m.
ing hundreds of shaken-up Photos of the train posted
passengers to evacuate on social media showed its
through darkened tunnels metal side deeply scraped
and delivering another jolt and dented from being
to a transit system plagued dragged along the wall of
by aging equipment and the subway tunnel. Debris,

Heat possible factor in 12

Maricopa County deaths

By ANGIE WANG derly couple found dead
Associated Press in a home in Pinal County
PHOENIX (AP) — Officials with a broken air condition-
are investigating the heat ing unit. Maricopa County,
as a possible factor in 12 the state’s largest munici-
deaths in metro Phoenix pality, saw 130 heat deaths
last week as temperatures last year, up from 85 in 2015.
soared to 119 degrees. The county is currently in-
Maricopa County De- vestigating 27 deaths dat-
partment of Public Health ing back to April as heat
officials said they have related. It’s not yet known
opened investigations into how many will be officially
the deaths to determine if linked to the heat.
they are heat-related. The low temperature for the
Phoenix has been in the day on Sunday was 93 de-
midst of a heat wave that grees (34 degrees Celsius),
has produced five days exceeding the previous re-
with temperatures hotter cord of 90 degrees (32 de-
than 115 degrees (46 de- grees Celsius) in 2015.
grees Celsius) in one week. Maricopa County epide-
That ties the city’s record miologist Kate Goodin said
set 22 years ago of days since the heat wave be-
above 115 degrees. gan, twice as many people
Other Arizona counties have visited emergency
have reported at least 4 departments for heat-relat-
heat-related deaths since ed illnesses compared to
last week, including an el- the week beforehand. q