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The suspected causes were a lightning strike, [25] train activity [26] [27] or activity inside the community. [6] Multiple residents blamed the Canadian National Railway (CN) and its mainline through the community, "saying that they saw sparks coming from a passing train at the same time the fire started."
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, [1] [2] when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars.
A westbound GO Transit train collided with a Toronto Transit Commission bus at the railway crossing between Danforth Road and Midland Avenue just north of the Scarborough GO Train Station. A faulty switch on the rear door had caused the bus to stop while straddling the track. [56] 1979 Turbo Train fire: 29 May 1979: near Morrisburg, Ontario: 0: 0
A migrant from Guatemala has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning — then watching as his innocent victim burned to death in what the ...
Three firefighters and 12 train passengers were hospitalized after a Brightline train crashed with a fire truck in crowded downtown Delray Beach late Saturday morning. The crash took place about ...
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Parent article: Lac-Mégantic rail disaster The involved tracks and train were operated by the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA, also MM&A). Over the decade leading up to this accident, aggressive cost cutting [1] [2] for freight train operations and continued deferred maintenance on the tracks resulted in much of the trackage being in marginal condition. [3]
Public can’t access fire extinguishers in subway system — and MTA has no plans to change that after horrific murder of woman on F train Katherine Donlevy, Aneeta Bhole December 26, 2024 at 6:15 PM