Red Line train in smoke-filled South Boston tunnel evacuated; service grinds to a halt

The Red Line outbound is dead at Andrew Square due to what the T is calling a "power problem" - dead enough to try to get shuttle buses running between Park Street and Ashmont.

Thomas reports he was on the last car of a train around 11 p.m.:

We were evacuated in a hurry by an official who said the train was on fire, then corrected himself by saying there was a fire in front of the train.

Frank Severino reported"smouldering electrical equipment on tracks" between Andrew and JFK/UMass. Firefighters were using chemicals to fight the fire until the T could shut down power so that they could use water.

The T says:

An electrical fire caused the smoke outside of Andrew Station. We experienced a power outage in that area from this electrical fire.