In this vital organ, the best defense is early detection. To spot trouble, the Transit Authority relies on its frontline lookouts.
We are the eyes and ears, because we're the one that out here, so fancy a fire on this train, they don't see that, I see it. So I call the control. We have a small condition, track for Junius Street.
Fire is another one of those things you really don't want to see happening below ground, because there really is no place for the smoke to go. If there's even a, you know, a minor trash fire, it may not be a major emergency, but if you are on that train and smoke then is content to the subway car. You really don't care what is it and you want to get out of there.