Boston train on fire

Boston train on fire
A train right outside of Boston caught on fire on Thursday morning, causing distressed passengers to escape through windows, with one jumping into a river.

The fire broke out for early morning commuters around 6:45 a.m. on an Orange Line train heading toward Assembly Station in Somerville, Mass. The train halted on a bridge over the Mystic River when the flames exploded from the head car.

'Assisted by MBTA personnel, approximately 200 passengers were walked off the train, but some people did evacuate through windows in the first car,' Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority spokesperson Joe Pesaturo said, according to The Boston Globe.

Passengers documented the incident as multiple people leaped out of the windows and onto the train tracks.

'Ladies, ladies,' one man is heard saying in the background of a video, as multiple people shove to get out of the window at once.

A woman responded, 'I'm scared.'

Additional footage showed passengers lined up to exit through a train door as others safely queued up outside. One passenger was picked up by public safety personnel after she jumped into the water from the burning train.

Personnel who arrived at the scene to assist passengers watched the shocking scene unfold as passengers evacuated.

'201 to control. I can see Medford Fire at the station. We're almost done evacuating,' a personnel supervisor said, according to The Globe.

'I have somebody jumping off the bridge into the water, actually, as we speak,' the supervisor said.

Somerville Fire Chief Charles Breen told The Globe that the fire department's boat was coincidentally in the river at the time of the incident and saw the woman swimming.

'The woman refused to get into the boat,' he said. 'She was provided a life jacket and proceeded to swim to shore... then she walked away.'

A resident who lives nearby watch the incident unfold through the window of his home.

'I was looking out and was like, "What the hell is going out there?"' William Tauro told The Globe. 'I'm looking out there and looking back to the TV and I'm seeing the same shot there that I'm seeing out the window.'