At about 9 p.m. on Wednesday June 26, 1985, the Gold Mark IV Walt Disney World monorail catches fire while enroute from Epcot to the Transportation and Ticket Center. Over two hundred passengers are safely evacuated from the elevated tracks by ladders and cherry-picker cranes. The monorails are driven by rubber truck tires and one on the rear car developed a flat and was drug down the concrete beam until it caught fire which ignited the coach.
According to the Miami Herald Thursday June 27, 1985:
"The 40 passengers in the burning car were able to knock out windows and climb to the train roof to await evacuation by the Reedy Creek Fire Department, Disney spokesman Rod Madden said."A number of improvements have been made to the monorails since then and they now run completely different trains. But a short list of the improvements includes:
- onboard fire detection systems
- emergency exits
- and evacuation planning
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