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Major fire after train carrying gas derails in Quebec town near Canada-US border

By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News

A train carrying gas derailed early Saturday in the middle of a town in Quebec near the U.S.-Canada border, setting off a major fire.

Franklin County Sheriff's office in Maine said that fire departments from the area had gone across the border to help Canadian firefighters battle the blaze that led to the evacuation of hundreds of people from Lac-Megantic.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that witnesses in the town of about 6,000 had heard several explosions following the derailment, which happened at about 1 a.m. ET.

A spokesperson for Ontario's Environment Ministry told the station that 73 rail cars filled with petroleum were involved.

The CBC said the fire had spread to a number of homes.

It's dreadful, Lac-Megantic resident Claude Bedard told the station. It's terrible. We've never seen anything like it. The Metro store, Dollarama, everything that was there is gone.

Some of the fuel was reported to have spilled into the Chaudiere River.

 



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Pendant ce temps au Québec déraillement de train et le feu

This is merica....speak merican.......



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'It's terrible. We've never seen anything like it.'Claude Bédard, Lac-Mégantic resident

Most people are unaware of how volatile the gases are on top of the oil in those cars. That stuff is nasty. In the new world of tanker trains running everywhere you go every day, this type of catastrophe will be an ongoing risk. 



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I was trying to honor our Canadian brothers from Quebec who enjoy French. After all, aren't we a PC forum?

I understand that we don't have any actual BJ members from Quebec that I'm aware of and I cannot verify whether TW5K and Steamer are bilingual, although I think it might be safe to say they speak fluent Canuck.

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Cy Valley wrote:

I was trying to honor our Canadian brothers from Quebec who enjoy French. After all, aren't we a PC forum?

I understand that we don't have any actual BJ members from Quebec that I'm aware of and I cannot verify whether TW5K and Steamer are bilingual, although I think it might be safe to say they speak fluent Canuck.

 Bilingual?.......this is merica damnit....not some French Fag thing

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 Bilingual?.......this is merica damnit....not some French Fag thing

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Tabernac! I speak la henglish and le francais modit calis

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(Reuters) - A fast-moving, driverless train carrying tankers of crude oil derailed and exploded into an enormous fireball in the middle of a Canadian town early on Saturday, destroying dozens of buildings and killing at least one person, a toll officials said was likely to rise.

The disaster occurred shortly after 1 a.m. (0500 GMT) when the runaway freight train with 73 cars sped into Lac-Megantic, a lakeside town of about 6,000 people in the province of Quebec near the border with Maine, and came off the rails.

Witnesses said the town center, which included bars as well as stores, a library and residential streets, was crowded with weekend partygoers.

Four of the cars caught fire and blew up in a huge fireball that mushroomed many hundreds of feet up into the air. It destroyed dozens of buildings, many of them totally flattened, included the popular Musi-Cafe music bar, eyewitnesses said. Rail company Montreal, Maine & Atlantic said the train had been parked some distance from the town, and no one was on board when it derailed.

 

"We're not sure what happened, but the engineer did everything by the book. He had parked the train and was waiting for his relief ... somehow, the train got released," company vice president of marketing Joseph R. McGonigle told Reuters.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/06/us-train-idUSBRE96505L20130706

 



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Drainoders has a thread going on it. Sure sounds MIR

plus the Uranus square Pluto disaster which

changed this town forever. As these oil trains become

more numerous and accidents have already happened

and they seem to make quite a mess whenever

accidents/shit happens. Pipelines explode/burst,

tanker trains can derail and cause big fire, tanker

ships can go agound and pollute our waterways.

It seems somehow all 3-ways have to go on no matter

the risks.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?15,3119915



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A runaway? Oh my. Isn't that the outfit that runs one man crews?

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A runaway? Oh my. Isn't that the outfit that runs one man crews?

 Yes. The engineer was said to be resting in the AFHT hotel when it rolled away.

Of course he is being interrogated by police and the the TSB.  



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A runaway? Oh my. Isn't that the outfit that runs one man crews?

 Yes. The engineer was said to be resting in the AFHT hotel when it rolled away.

Of course he is being interrogated by police and the the TSB.  

 Do rules north of the border require that he get undisturbed rest?  Because, I'm sure his rest from here on out is going to be disturbing.  

 



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A runaway? Oh my. Isn't that the outfit that runs one man crews?

 Yes. The engineer was said to be resting in the AFHT hotel when it rolled away.

Of course he is being interrogated by police and the the TSB.  

 Do rules north of the border require that he get undisturbed rest?  Because, I'm sure his rest from here on out is going to be disturbing.  

 

 Death toll confirmed at 3 today and dozens are said to be missing. A very ugly mess and not knowing details of their prescribed procedures when securing that train, there is no evidence to blame that engineer. Yet.  Either way, his life is hell, now. At the big carriers, a push/pull test is required which requires a a second man on the ground observing that the brakes are holding. Don't know how they get away without that and I was surprised to hear of one man crews handling that kind of cargo. It's now become a political jousting point, too. Deregulation has been suggested as a possible contributing factor.



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It should be political now.......

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Seven miles, from CNN:

The train's engineer stopped for the night and "tied down" the train 7 miles away from the town before he checked into a motel Saturday night, the company statement said. The train had stopped for a crew change.

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