Train engine catches fire near Westminster, Colorado, Westminster CO
Fire & ArsonA train's lead locomotive caught fire near milepost 5.4 close to Westminster, Colorado. The crew confirmed the fire on engine 5666 and shut down the locomotive. Fire appeared to be coming from the engine's stack. The crew coordinated with mechanical and fire departments to address the situation and ensured safety measures, including shutting down the engine and removing power breakers, were in place.
Audio|Source: BNSF-UP Joint Line Colorado
03:12
Transcript:
00:00
Do you guys have a fire? I just got to report that a train at milepost 5.4
00:07
It looked like it had a fire going on and they said it looked like you're about stopped at Westminster.
00:14
Oh yeah, yeah, this motor is on fire.
00:19
The lead engine over? Yeah, the lead engine.
00:22
Big fire coming out.
00:27
All right, is it, uh, are you guys shutting it down or, or what do we need to here? Yeah, we're shutting down now.
00:35
We're going to go, guys.
00:38
You might as much take this question.
00:45
Okay.
00:46
Are you going to be able to use that as a leader to run with, even if you shuts it down, for the computer system to work for the rest of the engines? Over?
00:59
Okay.
01:02
Yeah, let me know what you find out. Thanks, over.
01:08
Fort Worth Mechanical answering.
01:14
A stamp, the mechanical, the locomotive on fire, over.
01:19
666, over.
01:25
Allwitz mechanical call the locomotive currently on fire, over.
01:29
What time?
01:31
What was that road number? Over?
01:35
5666.
01:38
Roger, 5666.
01:39
And can you tell if it is a grid fire or a stack fire? Over?
01:45
Doesn't tell if it's a stack fire.
01:47
It turns out they look.
01:50
It's a large plan to put out of the time. Now that we've stopped, it might have been able to. Then I was just smoking there.
01:57
Roger, let's go ahead and shut that locomotive down.
02:01
At this point,
02:03
until we can confirm whether or not it was the grids versus a fire out the stack,
02:08
we're going to need to leave a shutdown.
02:12
And let us know whenever that fire does go out. Do we need to contact, I guess, the fire department? Over.
02:20
Go ahead. We should have been trying to find out, and I won't get it out.
02:26
All right.
02:32
Hold on again.
02:34
Go ahead.
02:36
Yeah, we're shutting it down.
02:38
Fire seems out.
02:40
Looks like it's coming out of the stack. Now it's just no spark out of the stack.
02:43
I'm just going to spark.
02:47
Roger, we'll need to shut that one down, leave it shut down, and get a new leader on that one, over.
02:59
All right, make sure whenever you all do, shut it down, all the breakers are pulled, knife switch is pulled, the tag is in the cab,
03:07
and put a fire out the stack on that tag. Over?
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Westminster, CO
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