Narrative:

We conducted a normal approach and landing; weather conditions were light rain in VMC; with flaps 45 degrees. Toward the end of the landing roll; the tower advised us of smoke coming from our left main gear with simultaneous and corresponding EICAS message. We exited the runway; set parking brake. We observed smoke from cockpit on the right side of the aircraft. I made the decision to evacuate the passengers. We opened the cockpit door and instructed the flight attendant to evacuate the passengers through the front main door. We completed the emergency evacuation checklist and then the first officer left the cockpit to exit the aircraft and assist passenger egress. As the passengers started to exit the aircraft; the flight attendant saw smoke outside the aircraft on the right-hand side and indicated to a passenger in the left emergency exit row to open the overwing exit and start to use it to speed up the evacuation. On exiting the aircraft; the first officer observed smoke only coming from the left main gear assembly. Crash fire rescue arrived almost at this same time. The first officer saw passengers coming out of the left overwing exit and instructed them to go back in and use the forward exit. We think that 2-3 passengers did use the overwing exit before the first officer was able to instruct the remaining passengers to go back in. Crash fire rescue hosed down the gear assembly and the remaining passengers deplaned without injury through the main door and the gallery service door and were escorted to the executive terminal. After all the passengers had exited the flight attendant and I did a walkthrough of the cabin and checked the lavatory.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: E145 evacuated after landing roll due to an overheated and smoking left main landing gear assembly.

Narrative: We conducted a normal approach and landing; weather conditions were light rain in VMC; with flaps 45 degrees. Toward the end of the landing roll; the Tower advised us of smoke coming from our left main gear with simultaneous and corresponding EICAS message. We exited the runway; set parking brake. We observed smoke from cockpit on the right side of the aircraft. I made the decision to evacuate the passengers. We opened the cockpit door and instructed the Flight Attendant to evacuate the passengers through the front main door. We completed the Emergency Evacuation checklist and then the First Officer left the cockpit to exit the aircraft and assist passenger egress. As the passengers started to exit the aircraft; the Flight Attendant saw smoke outside the aircraft on the right-hand side and indicated to a passenger in the left emergency exit row to open the overwing exit and start to use it to speed up the evacuation. On exiting the aircraft; the First Officer observed smoke only coming from the left main gear assembly. Crash Fire Rescue arrived almost at this same time. The First Officer saw passengers coming out of the left overwing exit and instructed them to go back in and use the forward exit. We think that 2-3 passengers did use the overwing exit before the First Officer was able to instruct the remaining passengers to go back in. Crash Fire Rescue hosed down the gear assembly and the remaining passengers deplaned without injury through the main door and the gallery service door and were escorted to the executive terminal. After all the passengers had exited the Flight Attendant and I did a walkthrough of the cabin and checked the lavatory.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.