Happy Monday, the NYC subway system is a literal hellscape pic.twitter.com/mYN2n5uD16 — max linsky (@maxlinsky) November 19, 2018

Did you wake up this morning thinking that because it's a holiday Thanksgiving week, everything would go a little more smoothly and quickly? That you would effortlessly glide into the shortened workweek with the faint, comforting hint of stuffing and sweet potatoes in the air? Well you were wrong, because the only thing you might be smelling onboard our fundamentally broken subway system is the scorching scent of fire.

This morning, our staff nearly had to evacuate @MTA @NYCTSubway when the track caught fire. B train. Thankfully no one was hurt. Here's a video of the fire: pic.twitter.com/vudMczbBON — gabriel sayegh (@_gabrielsayegh) November 19, 2018

I will say: New Yorkers’ capacity to stay chill in these situations is incredible. We basically live on this train now, there is a genuine fire 20 yards away, and everyone is just cracking jokes and making fun of their bosses — max linsky (@maxlinsky) November 19, 2018

"It happened just south of [the] Prospect Park stop on a B, took 30-40 mins to deal with," said Max Linsky, who took the fire photo up above and was stuck on the train around 9:15 a.m. "Our conductor was amazing, kept everyone super calm and gave lots of updates. People were amazing on the train actually, cracking all kindsa jokes."

And there’s the smoke and fire shutting down the B Q at Prospect Park pic.twitter.com/79UZF72Go6 — Eric Sumberg (@ericsumberg) November 19, 2018

PSA don’t take a BQ train today. There’s a track fire ahead of our train and we’re now evacuating the train through the back. @MTA pic.twitter.com/Balgtgte6Z — Jacqui Layne Devaney (@jacquidevaney) November 19, 2018

B and Q train service was delayed and rerouted along other lines while the fire was happening. As of 10:30 a.m., it has now resumed, although you may not realize that if you are currently still waiting for one of those trains, as nothing is working:

Sorry about that. A track fire in Brooklyn backed up Q train service quite a bit. It looks like a Q train should be arriving momentarily. Hope you enjoy your day. ^MW — NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) November 19, 2018

Hi there, service is still delayed following that earlier track fire in Brooklyn. As a result, some trains may hold in stations as we are trying to evenly space out service. ^SL — NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) November 19, 2018

Hi, Nina. We're sorry for the long wait. There are delays in service because of an earlier track fire at Prospect Park which rerouted B and Q train service. ^JP — NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) November 19, 2018

Happy Monday, write your local politicians to tell them we need a working subway, XOXO.