FAIRFIELD, Conn. (WTNH) — Three trains were stuck for multiple hours Thursday night in the Fairfield-Westport area due to downed power lines.

The trains were Metro-North and Amtrak trains. Passengers were stuck with the windows down, trying to get air into the hot compartments.

Two hundred people were stuck on the Metro-North train and 400 were stuck on the Amtrak, which was headed from Boston to Philadelphia. Laura Lambert, a passenger on the Amtrak train, explained her experience.

"There's a woman having a panic attack very, very upset, crying," Lambert said. "There's a woman with a cat and worried about her cat not having water. A little child has been worried."

Passengers on two trains were all transferred either by another train or bus towards New York. Passengers on the Amtrak tr

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