Minor damage and smoke reported on BART train at Balboa Park, San Francisco CA


A BART train departing Balboa Park Station showed sparks and white smoke according to a patron's report. Upon inspection, the train had minor damage including a spider webbed window and scorched seats, but the window remained intact with no complete shattering.
Audio|Source: Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) - Rail Operations
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Transcript:
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Can we ask the Amalfo 1 operator if they had a clearboard? We got a report from the agent at Balboa Park, a patroner saying that that train was sparking and smoking.
00:10
That's careful.
00:12
Power support, this is Com 663.
00:15
Com 663, good.
00:19
Can you show me, Claremont War harder at this town, please?
00:23
4-51, did you see anything out of the ordinary at Bob Wolf Park?
00:28
The COPS, you shouldn't create a workholders from the R-33 control room at 1923.
00:33
I did not.
00:35
1923, thank you.
00:38
Copy. No.
00:40
And just confirm you didn't see any kind of smoke or haze or anything like that at Buffalo?
00:46
Negative.
00:47
Okay. Okay.
00:49
Um...
00:52
Schedule 363, Colma 2, 311 please.
00:57
363 confirm the transit at the 10-car marker rebrandt.
01:05
363 is at the 10-car marker.
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363, confirm the onto the door open middle on the platform side.
01:14
63 confirms to open the open the door button on the platform side.
01:20
363 comma recrack correct authority germany and dorsetical plus on site income marker 1924 11 approaching 24 street 1 can go 1421
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1st 1421 gc dc dc gc 111 hold mouthpost 13 decimal 0 in wind shark rebats
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11 home outpost 13 of the msrowero
01:47
14,
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keyboard of Platform 1.
01:51
I guess when that 501 on Platform 1 was leaving Balboa, there's quarters from the sparks in the White Smoke.
01:58
Well, a letter, Rebecca is Craig, 1924. Many give you a track inspection in the Balboa Park.
02:04
I copy.
02:06
Central 501, the, excuse me, the MNID, the 501 operator said he had a clear report.
02:11
I'm having them contact find office.
02:14
Thank you.
02:20
One, fourteen, uh,
02:22
any clues to where that occurred on the train?
02:26
Ultra, please have a set-up from which one was a pickup?
02:29
What's up there?
02:31
Negative, I think a picture reported it from the platform as it was leading the station.
02:36
I'll copy, we'll walk along and smell anything. Oh hey, look, a broken window.
02:44
I give the car number to that.
02:47
Yeah.
02:54
The car 3101 window.
03:01
Number one.
03:03
Kathy, is the window still there?
03:11
Yeah, it's got a good integrity still.
03:16
The whole thing is not shattered, it's just one point and it's kind of like spider webbing out a bit.
03:25
Happy, what window was it?
03:27
Window number one.
03:29
Also, several of the seats back here, they're flashed up.
03:33
249, Greenpeace off, wild side, off right on Linda party.
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Location mentioned:
Balboa Park, 401 Geneva Ave, San Francisco, CA 94112
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