Worked near the Lenfant Plaza station. The allegation that the fans werent working was dead wrong. But now, after now almost a month after you first heard the claims about the fans hear on abc 7 news metro is being urged to make sure it has a plan to use those massive fans correctly. Stephen tschida live at the Lenfant Plaza station with more on the recommendations for transit systems around the country now. Stephen . Alison this sharp criticism of metro from the ntsb, word is spreading among passengers. A lot of concern here. A lot of concern at the council of governments today where those recommendations were delivered. Now, the ntsb investigated the fatal event here near the station back on january 12th and today, it released some of the preliminary findings of its investigation and i can go over a few of those for you. It stated basically that the procedures for ventilation of smoke in some systems are inadequate. Metro should immediately address these issues to prevent the occurre
12th was way out of scale. Metro officials remain vague. Were working on a daily basis to make it even safer. We heard from an array of elected officials all expressing concerns about the findings including maryland senator Barbara Mikulski who described this as shocking and said its an example about how equipment there to protect passengers failed with deadly consequences. Reporting live stephen tschida, abc 7 news. And Stephen Metro had to deal with another smoke incident just this afternoon when an insulator caught fire near the courthouse metro station in arlington. It took about 40 minutes to find and extinguish that fire. The courthouse station briefly closed as trains single track through the area. No one was hurt. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is making it easier for First Responders to talk with one another in a crisis situation. She eased the districts encrypting rules. First responders can now switch back to encrypted channels in a case if a case involves sensitive information.