text: One woman is dead, dozens of people were hospitalized and three remain in critical condition after the upper level of the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station in southeast D.C. filled with smoke Monday afternoon. 
   
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   A Virginia-bound Yellow Line train was in the tunnel just south of the station around 3:20 p.m. when it stopped for unknown reasons. 
   
   Dozens of people were trapped inside the train's cars as the tunnel filled with thick, black smoke. 
   
   "People could barely breathe," passenger Denzel Hatch said. "They had to evacuate us through the tunnel and walk back through the front. No electricity, no visibility, nothing. Couldn't see anything at first." 
   
   "You're hearing other people crying, you're seeing people passing out... it was a horrific thing to witness," passenger Adjoa Adofo said. 
   
   A young black man had a seizure. Thank God the firefighters had made it on to the train by then. We were trying to escape through the back A video posted by Adjoa, Inc © (@adjyb) on Jan 12, 2015 at 2:13pm PST 
   
   Firefighters gained access to the tunnel at one of the evacuation points at Ninth Street and Maine Avenue SE. One injured firefighter was transported from that location by ambulance. 
   
   A young black man had a seizure. Thank God the firefighters had made it on to the train by then. We were trying to escape through the back A video posted by Adjoa, Inc © (@adjyb) on Jan 12, 2015 at 2:15pm PST 
   
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   According to D.C. Fire and EMS, 84 patients were taken to hospitals. Three are in critical but stable condition, two of them at George Washington University Hospital. More than 200 people were evaluated. 
   
   "There was a woman who was in distress on that train, and I'm sorry to say she's passed away," Metro General Manager and Chief Executive Officer Richard Sarles said. 
   
   The woman's cause of death and identity remain unknown. 
   
   "We are all saddened by today's fatality aboard the Metrorail, and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the passenger who passed away," a statement from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser read. 
   
   L'Enfant Metro Evacuated Over Smoke 
   
   Though an exact cause of the smoke and fire is unknown, NTSB investigators said there was an electrical arcing involving the third rail and the power supply cables to that rail prior to the fire. There was water along the tracks near the accident scene, which would have helped facilitate smoke along the third rail, investigators said. 
   
   "It was just very smoky in there," passenger Fitz Carter said from aboard a Metro bus while waiting to be taken to a hospital. "We couldn't see anything. The visibility was poor. Right now, there's a lot of burning in my throat and my chest. Everybody got as low as they possibly could to the ground, because that's where the best possibility for oxygen was." 
   
   The FBI is assisting Metro Transit Police in determining a cause, which is standard procedure for incidents in the capital region. 
   
   Metro Riders Exit Tunnel at L'Enfant For Smoke in Tunnel News4's Jackie Bensen reports live outside L'Enfant Metro station Monday afternoon, as rescue crews helped dozens of riders out of the system's tunnels. (Published Monday, Jan. 12, 2015) 
   
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   Green Line trains are operating on a normal schedule Tuesday. Blue Line trains will replace the Yellow Line from Huntington to Largo Town Center; trains will run every 12 minutes. 
   
   Metro Evacuates L'Enfant Station for Smoke News4's Scott MacFarlane has the latest on the closure of the L'Enfant Metro station in downtown DC, after reports of smoke in the tunnels. (Published Monday, Jan. 12, 2015) 
   
   Sarles is set to retire Friday as Metro's general manager. ||||| Passengers were removed from a Yellow Line Metro train Monday afternoon after it filled with smoke. A rider reports that the train operator said, "there's a problem, nobody move," then the car quickly began to fill with smoke. (Saleh Damiger/Jonathan Rogers) 
   
   The latest: 1 dead, dozens hurt after Metro car fills with smoke 
   
   Earlier coverage from Monday: 
   
   Updated at 8:13 p.m. 
   
   The L’Enfant Plaza Metro station has reopened for Orange, Silver and Blue line service. 
   
   Green and Yellow line service will remain suspended through the end of the day between the Gallery Place and Navy Yard/Pentagon stations. It wasn’t known if service would be restored for the Tuesday morning commute. 
   
   Updated 7:59 p.m. 
   
   A total of 84 people were hospitalized due to the Metro tunnel filling with smoke, including one patient who died, D.C. fire department spokesman Tim Wilson said. 
   
   Up until about 6:30 p.m., D.C. fire officials were saying that only six people had been injured. That number increased sharply when Metro officials briefed reporters. 
   
   Wilson would only say that the officials responsible for briefing reporters were trying to accurately tally the numbers and wanted to wait to confirm them before making public statements. 
   
   Metro Transit Police said that the National Transportation Safety Board would be investigating. 
   
   Updated 6:47 p.m. 
   
   Metro General Manager Richard Sarles said one of the passengers injured in the tunnel incident has died. The woman has not been identified pending notification of next of kin, he said. 
   
   In addition, Sarles said two people were in critical condition at George Washington Hospital; 40 were transported by bus to Howard University Hospital, and another 20 to 25 people were taken to Washington Hospital Center. 
   
   Sarles said that since the incident involved a fatality, the Metropolitan Police Department would now be involved in the investigation. 
   
   Updated: 5:54 p.m. 
   
   Six people were injured, one critically, when smoke filled a Metro tunnel Monday afternoon. 
   
   Tim Wilson, a spokesman for D.C. Fire and EMS, said one person has been transported to an area hospital with a critical injury but he did not know the cause or severity of the injury. Another five people were transported with minor injuries. 
   
   (Related: Scenes of a chaotic day at L’Enfant Plaza) 
   
   A Metrobus at 7th and D streets SW held people from the tunnel and the train station. About 20 appeared to be on board, some being treated by firefighters with oxygen. 
   
   Jonathan Rogers was aboard the Yellow Line train when it came to an abrupt halt as it headed to the Pentagon Station. 
   
   “You could see smoke coming through the doors,” he said. “It started to get scary pretty quick.” 
   
   He said the train operator got on the loudspeaker and urged people to remain calm. He said the plan was to back up the train to the platform of the L’Enfant station. 
   
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   “We’re going to move the train backwards,” Rogers recalled the driver saying. 
   
   But after more time, it became apparent that strategy wasn’t going to work. 
   
   He said passengers remained relatively calm, but as the smoke grew thicker, some began to panic. 
   
   (Related: Alternatives for Metro riders affected by the closure of L’Enfant Plaza station) 
   
   “People started praying,” he said. “Smoke was coming in pretty steadily. Some people were fine and some people were just hurting pretty quickly.” 
   
   He said a man standing next to him, started having breathing problems and sank to the floor. 
   
   Passengers watched out for each other, sharing inhalers with those who were having trouble breathing, he said. After a few more minutes, another woman standing near him said she couldn’t breathe and then passed out. Rogers and other passengers took turns giving her CPR. 
   
   “We just kept doing (CPR), maybe 25 minutes . . . we just kept going. Somebody helped carry her toward the back of the train – that was before the fire fighters arrived.” 
   
   Rogers said it took about 40 minutes before firefighters arrived and began evacuating the train. Passengers walked through the tunnel back to L’Enfant station. He said the air in the tunnel was easier to breathe than the air on the train. On the train, he said the smoked had a chemical smell, but in the tunnel it had the distinct smell of burning wood. Once they got to L’Enfant he saw a lot of ambulances and fire trucks. 
   
   Rogers, who works for the D.C. Department of Transportation, took a Capital BikeShare bike back to his office near the Navy Yard. Normally, he would have taken BikeShare back to his office, but opted to take Metro because it was raining. And then, he’d gotten aboard the Yellow Line by mistake. He meant to catch a Green Line train. 
   
   “The only scary part was not knowing if the smoke was going to stop,” he said. 
   
   Adjoa Adofo, 30, had just gotten off work as a public relations consultant and was on the Yellow line headed to Virginia to go shopping. 
   
   A few minutes after pulling out of the station and into the tunnel, she said the train came to an abrupt halt and smoke came in thorough the closed doors. She said the train was crowded but not packed, with room in the center aisle 
   
   “People were panicking,” said Adofo, who lives nearNavy Yard. “We didn’t know what to do and and we weren’t getting a lot of information.” 
   
   She said the train operator told them there was no fire, just smoke. “That calmed people down a little bit ,” she said. “But smoke continued to come in. The driver told us not to open the doors. That was the big thing. More smoke would come in. But people were panicking. They were trying up open the doors anyway.” 
   
   She said people sat down on the floor to get away from the smoke. She said all the lights were out. “It was black. Pitch black.” She said one young man suffered a seizure and an older man began banging on the doors screaming profanities. 
   
   She said they were there about 30 to 40 minutes. She said the operator told them they were waiting for a train in the station to move so they could return but communication had broken down. Finally she said metro personnel and firefighters got everyone out and they marched single fine back to the station. 
   
   Adofo emerged nearly in tears and said she prayed — Hail Marys and Our Fathers. “I’m just glad that I’m out of there.” 
   
   Saleh Damiger and Sirwan Kajjo said they thought they were “going to die” when they Yellow Line train they were on Monday afternoon filled with smoke. 
   
   Damiger, 43, and Kajjo, 28, both Voice of America employees, got on a Yellow Line train headed toward the Pentagon about 3 p.m. They said the six-car train had gone about 200 feet when it stopped. The train operator said “there’s a problem, nobody move”. The men said the car quickly began to fill will smoke. 
   
   “The train stopped and all of a sudden it filled with smoke. … There was no fire. Lots of smoke only. … People were choking. People were yelling, Damiger said. “It was a lot of smoke. We couldn’t see each other. … One woman, she started to pray. .. We felt like we were almost going to die.” 
   
   Metro employees quickly got onto the train and told passengers to get low to the ground to avoid the smoke. 
   
   “They told us to get down, get down in the floor, stay low … Of course it was dark too,” Kajjo said. “The lights were gone. We couldn’t see.” 
   
   The men said they saw at least two people who appeared to be unconscious. They said they waited about an hour before firefighters arrived and began escorting them off the train and led them out of the tunnel. 
   
   They described the experienced as “harrowing”. 
   
   
   
   Metro train riders are seen being shuttled on a Metrobus after commuters were evacuated from the L’Enfant Metro Station when smoke filled a Metro car on Wednesday. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) 
   
   No cause of the smoke has been determined. Around 5:40 p.m., Metro spokeswoman Caroline Laurin said that the smoke has now cleared from the station. That is at least in part due to the tunnel fans that Metro workers turned on, she said. But in the event that the fire was caused by an electrical malfunction – which workers have not yet confirmed – the smoke may also have abated because Metro shut down the third rail at L’Enfant Plaza. 
   
   As of 5:40 p.m., Green/Yellow line service has been restored at Gallery Place Station for service to/from stations north (toward Greenbelt). Green/Yellow service remains suspended between Gallery Place and Navy Yard/Pentagon. 
   
   Yellow Line riders traveling between Virginia and DC should use the Blue Line as an alternate. 
   
   Andrew Ames, spokesman for the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said the FBI responded to the incident. He said it is standard protocol to respond. “At this point it doesn’t appear to be anything other than a fire.” 
   
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   L’Enfant Plaza Metro station is closed after officials evacuated it for smoke Monday afternoon, shutting down rail service for a large portion of the Green and Yellow lines. 
   
   Green Line service is suspended between Navy Yard and Mt. Vernon Square. Yellow Line service is suspended between Pentagon City and Mt. Vernon Square, Metro said. 
   
   Blue, Orange and Silver lines trains are bypassing L’Enfant Plaza, but service is not affected at other stops. 
   
   That was easily the worst metro ride of my life pic.twitter.com/a5EnGeRzMQ — Jonathan Rogers (@JRogers202) January 12, 2015 
   
   D.C. fire department spokesman Tim Wilson said that firefighters are on the scene but had found no fire. On Twitter, the firefighters’ union said that a second alarm had sounded. 
   
   Although the event has been labeled a “mass casualty event” that refers strictly to the number of people involved and is not a suggestion that there are numerous injuries or deaths. D.C. Fire and EMS reported via Twitter that people are being removed from a disabled train inside a tunnel and that no serious injuries have been reported. 
   
   Metro spokeswoman Caroline Laurin said that Metro did not know the cause of the smoke. 
   
   Roads near the station were also closed. 
   
   Yellow Line riders can use the Blue Line instead. For Green Line riders, who do not have another Metro option, Metro said at 4:16 p.m. that it was sending shuttle buses to L’Enfant Plaza and Navy Yard. 
   
   Twitter and Instagram users posted smoky photos. 
   
   @IAFF36 L'Enfant Plaza metro scene right now pic.twitter.com/9rHivfPd9y — Kealy Erin Gordon (@Keals2005) January 12, 2015 ||||| One woman died Monday after a Metro station in the nation's capital filled with smoke. 
   
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   A woman died and 84 people were hospitalized Monday after smoke filled the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station in the nation's capital. The crisis came on the same day that the Netflix series' Twitter page posted a message referencing a storyline on the show in which one character pushes another in front of a subway train. 
   
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   "Consider the slate clean," read the House of Cards tweet. It was accompanied by an image of a fake newspaper headline that stated, "Train Traffic Tragedy." 
   
   A number of Twitter users criticized the show for the timing of the tweet, which has since been deleted. A Netflix rep declined to comment. 
   
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   The tweet can be seen below. 
   
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   Twitter: @_RyanGajewski ||||| The train, which had eight cars, stopped about 800 feet south of the station, and many of the passengers “self-evacuated” before firefighters arrived, Mr. Flanigon said. Some jumped out of the train cars, walked through the darkened tunnel to a vent shaft and climbed a three- or four-story-high staircase to get to ground level. In order for them to do so, the electricity for the third rail was turned off. 
   
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   The train did not derail, and there was no fire onboard, Mr. Flanigon said. 
   
   Emergency crews helped the rest of the passengers leave the smoke-filled train, with riders walking through the tunnel leading back to the busy station, which serves as a transfer point for five of the system’s six lines. L’Enfant Plaza station was evacuated and closed for several hours, and some service on the Yellow and Green Lines was suspended through the end of the day. 
   
   Mayor Muriel Bowser met with some of the injured passengers at George Washington University Hospital on Monday night. 
   
   “We are all saddened by today’s fatality aboard the Metrorail, and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the passenger who passed away,” the mayor said in a statement. “I want to thank our brave first responders who assisted passengers during the evacuation and with treatment at the scene.” 
   
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   Officials at MedStar Washington Hospital Center said on Monday night that 11 patients had been treated there and released and that seven remained at the hospital, including one in critical condition and another in serious condition. One firefighter was injured, emergency officials said. 
   
   L’Enfant Plaza stop is near offices for the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Communications Commission and several Smithsonian museums. 
   
   Mr. Flanigon said that investigators would remain at the scene for about a week and that it would take six months to a year for a final report, unless the safety board concludes immediate action is necessary. 
   
   The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority posted a message on its website to inform riders of planned changes to rail service for Tuesday. 
   
   There was still confusion at L’Enfant Plaza station around midnight as dozens of riders were forced to exit trains and had trouble finding the shuttle buses waiting for them on the street. One rider, Dashawn Grimes, said there was no announcement on her train saying there had been an accident. She wandered around looking for a shuttle bus before an employee sent her in the right direction. She boarded the last shuttle bus, which departed around 12:07 a.m. 
   
   “It’s cold out here and there’s no one here, and no one told me where the shuttle bus is,” she said. “It’s just really annoying.”
target: – One person died and at least 83 others were hospitalized after smoke filled a Washington, DC, subway station and tunnel during the afternoon rush hour yesterday. Hundreds of people were evacuated from L'Enfant Plaza station—one of the Metro network's busiest—and from a Yellow Line train that was stuck in a tunnel, the Washington Post reports. At least two of the injured are in critical condition, and officials say the name of the woman who died will not be released until next of kin have been notified. The NTSB's investigator in charge says the cause appears to have been an "arcing event" in which electricity jumped from the system's third rail, reports the New York Times. Water in the tunnel may have been a contributing factor, he says. Passengers who were on the stuck train described scenes of panic as the smoke grew thicker before firefighters arrived to help them escape by walking through the tunnel back to the station. "We couldn't see anything. The visibility was poor," a passenger waiting to be taken to a hospital told NBC. "Everybody got as low as they possibly could to the ground, because that's where the best possibility for oxygen was." One firefighter is among the injured. Meanwhile: The Hollywood Reporter picks up on a social media oops from Netflix series House of Cards. In a nod to a season 2 episode, it last night tweeted, "Consider the slate clean," alongside a photo of an empty DC subway station and a fake news headline reading "Train Traffic Tragedy." An odd coincidence: New York City's Penn Station was forced to delay trains early today on the heels of a three-alarm fire that has been dubbed "suspicious." It occurred at a construction site near the Long Island Rail Road concourse's west end around 2:30am. NBC New York reports service was restored to normal three hours later.