Orange Line train catches on fire during rush hour

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A fire on an Orange Line train Thursday morning filled the system with smoke and forced a train operator to put out the flames with an extinguisher.

Later in the day, 10 people, including four children, were trapped in one of Metro’s deepest elevators at the Woodley Park-Zoo station for more than an hour and half.

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