Whether it was heat or full combustion wasn't known, he said. Firefighters put water on it, and the smoke went away. It wasn't clear exactly what caused smoke, initially described as fire, under the luggage car, VanSciver said late Wednesday afternoon. Ventura County Fire Engineer Andy VanSciver said based on the count of people getting off the train, there were 186 passengers.īoth agreed there were also 13 crew members aboard. Olivia Irvin, senior public relations manager for Amtrak, said that based on ticket scans, the train was carrying 198 passengers. In all, 16 people were taken to hospitals, including the truck driver taken to a trauma center.Īuthorities also had conflicting numbers of passengers on the derailed Amtrak train. Wednesday, authorities added one more person to the number taken to local hospitals after someone at the Moorpark center, where passengers had been bused, was transported. Here are the latest updates: Additional passenger sent to hospitalĪs of 5 p.m. Wednesday, most people at the center had been picked up by family or had boarded buses to Union Station in Los Angeles. The train hit a Ventura County Public Works Agency water truck that was being driven by a public works employee, officials said.Ī center was set up for family members to reunite with passengers, at the adult center at 799 Moorpark Ave. Several cars of an Amtrak Coast Starlight train derailed after a collision with a county vehicle in Moorpark late Wednesday morning, authorities said. You can find a summary of the incident here, and a story on expected track repairs as of Thursday here. Editor's note: Our live coverage has ended.
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