According to BART, the Colma station has been closed due to “a major medical emergency.”

BART first reported an incident at 9:18 AM, saying that “There is a delay developing on the Daly City Line in the East Bay direction due to a major medical emergency.”

By 9:24, they had announced a closure at the Colma station, then at 9:32 AM reported “There is a major delay at Colma on the Daly City Line in the SFO, Millbrae, Daly City and East Bay directions due to a major medical emergency.”

Further details on the nature of the emergency were not available at publication time.

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Eve Batey is the editor and publisher of the San Francisco Appeal. She used to be the San Francisco Chronicle's Deputy Managing Editor for Online, and started at the Chronicle as their blogging and interactive editor. Before that, she was a co-founding writer and the lead editor of SFist. She's been in the city since 1997, presently living in the Outer Sunset with her husband, cat, and dog. You can reach Eve at eve@sfappeal.com.

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