Today's installment features activity at Porter Station this morning, which forced bustitution of Red Line service between Alewife and Harvard, so it must have been an actual fire. This follows a major fire-related mess at Downtown at the end of May, forcing many rush hour commuters on to buses and other modes of transit, without much assistance from the Authority (allegedly).

This has been mentioned over in the "unmentionable" forums, but I will second it here — somebody needs to clean up the tracks. Every time stuff catches fire, major delays are encountered by passengers, employees are stretched, and anger escalates. Though I'm sure the cost of giving the entire subway system a good TLC cleaning would be astronomical at this point and lead to a fare increase, so maybe we'd best put up with the occasional delay!