NEW YORK — Rail services were disrupted before the Friday morning commute after a fire broke out overnight on a maintenance train in New York’s Penn Station, injuring five people.

By midmorning, Amtrak and NJ Transit service to and from Penn Station in Manhattan remained interrupted. Long Island Rail Road resumed full service out of the station, after it had been suspended in both directions.

Firefighters received an emergency call reporting a fire on a train car at Penn Station around 1:30 a.m., the Fire Department said. The blaze was brought under control around 4 a.m. and later extinguished, and its cause was under investigation, the department said.

Five rail workers were hurt, including two who were taken to a hospital with serious injuries, officials said. The Fire Department said it had deployed 46 fire trucks and 141 personnel to the scene.

Amtrak, the national passenger rail road company, accepted responsibility for the fire. It started on an Amtrak contractor’s maintenance vehicle just outside the Hudson River tunnels, west of Penn Station, the company said in a statement.

Here’s what else to know:

— Service Problems: This is the second major service disruption this month caused by a fire on the tracks near Penn Station. On May 14, an electrical fire in a tunnel under the East River snarled train traffic for hours. A few days later, an LIRR strike shut down the nation’s busiest commuter rail for three days.

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This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

By John Yoon and Stefanos Chen/Heather Khalifa
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