Sean Duffy: “There have been five, what SEPTA calls thermal events in…”

“I'm going to let our administrators talk a little more about what we're doing doing with regard to safety moving forward, but just want to point out a couple of issues that we have in the system. First off, There have been five, what SEPTA calls thermal events in 2025 alone. A thermal event is actually a fire on the system. Obviously that's very concerning. Fires with regard to a transit system, not good. So we've sent our inspectors up to Philadelphia.” (01:52–01:59)

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