Crews are responding to a train carrying fuel that is on fire in Anne Arundel County Wednesday morning.
The fire broke out just after 6:30 a.m. on Waugh Chapel Road in Odenton. Officials say the fire started in the stack of the locomotive.
The train is confined to a service area, and officials say no passengers are on board.
It's said to be carrying 1,000 gallons of fuel.
Firefighters operating on the scene of a fire in the stack of a locomotive in a maintenance yard in the 500 block of Old Waugh Chapel Road. No injuries at this time. pic.twitter.com/etEUyFTFEF
— Anne Arundel Fire (@AACoFD) August 8, 2018
Firefighters have extinguished the fire and no injuries have been reported at this time.
Update Odenton locomotive fire | fire is extinguished, working on cooling operations and a small diesel leak | no injuries | beginning to demobilize and return some units to service shortly pic.twitter.com/NHRudEzBo7
— Anne Arundel Fire (@AACoFD) August 8, 2018
