Half of Light Rail Transit (LRT) line 1 was temporarily suspended this Friday morning because of a fire incident in a residential area near LRT Blumentritt station in Manila. They suspended operations from Carriedo station to Roosevelt station. The fire was on a residential house at Rizal Avenue corner Bulacan Street in Sta. Cruz, Manila.
A LRTA spokesperson said "We had to limit our operation from Baclaran to Central stations starting 9:20 a.m. since the fire made Blumentritt Station impassable to trains and the stations became too hot to accommodate commuters. But we resumed full operation at exactly 10:17 a.m." He also added that the fire threatened the LRT 1’s power supply rectifier located near Blumentritt station.
This incident came just a day before the scheduled LRT Line 1 suspension of operations from Abad Santos to Roosevelt stations.
