Unidentified Fumes At West Oakland Cause System-Wide BART Delay [Updated]: SFist

We're getting reports via a perturbed BART rider that "something has been released" causing passengers to start coughing on the lead car of a BART train at West Oakland Station. Another rider says that "noxious fumes" have caused a BART service delay, and posted a picture of passengers waiting on the platform by a stalled train.

We'll update you as we learn more.

"Something has been released" in the lead car at West Oakland BART station (SFO direction) causing coughing. Scary phrasing of announcement.
— Wesley Baugh (@WesleyBaugh) August 22, 2014

BART delay at W Oakland due to noxious fume on train pic.twitter.com/sqNghiCzNF
— Sarah Fine (@fineplanner) August 22, 2014

Stuck on the Bart underground while the train front of us goes offline because of “spray” and is being evacuated.
Uhm, what?!
— Jake Desaulniers (@desaulniers) August 22, 2014

Update: BART now says it's "recovering" from a 15-minute, system-wide delay due to "police activity" at West Oakland.

BART recovering: 15- min delay system wide due to police activity at WOAK.
— SFBARTalert (@SFBARTalert) August 22, 2014

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