Chicago commuter train collides into snow removal equipment, 38 injured, 3 critically
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Fire officials in Chicago say that commuter train collided with rail equipment on Thursday morning, injuring nearly 40 people, some of them critically.
The Yellow Line train was carrying 31 commuters, including four children, when it collided with the rail equipment. A person is taken away via ambulance after a Chicago Transit Authority train crashed into a piece of equipment that was on the rails near the Howard CTA station on the North Side (Ashlee Rezin /Chicago Sun-Times via AP) A person is taken away via ambulance after a Chicago Transit Authority train crashed into a piece of equipment that was on the rails near the Howard CTA station on the North Side. (Ashlee Rezin /Chicago Sun-Times via AP) Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
"We get on the scene we had 31 civilians and seven CTA personnel involved in the incident. We changed out all the tracks, made sure the power was off, evacuated all the civilians to EMS," Robert Jurewicz, the Chicago Fire Department's second district chief said. She is a native of Massachusetts and is based in Orlando, Florida.
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