NY Long Island Rail Service Resumes After Grand Central Fire

An electrical fire at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal halted Long Island Rail Road service as about 100 firefighters worked for several hours through thick smoke to put out the flames.

LIRR service in and out of Grand Central resumed Tuesday afternoon after trains earlier were rerouted to Penn Station, Jamaica station in Queens or the Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn. The cause of the fire is under investigation and there were no life-threatening injuries, New York Fire Department Commissioner Robert Tucker told reporters at Grand Central after the fire was diminished.