{"id":20998,"date":"2013-07-07T12:07:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T17:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20998"},"modified":"2013-07-25T11:42:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:42:52","slug":"locomotive-in-lac-megantic-derailment-had-been-on-fire-hours-before-the-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/07\/locomotive-in-lac-megantic-derailment-had-been-on-fire-hours-before-the-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Locomotive in Lac-M\u00e9gantic derailment had been on fire hours before the crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.680news.com\/2013\/07\/07\/harper-to-visit-quebec-town-rattled-by-train-derailment-blasts-and-fireballs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>680News<\/em><\/a> round-up of details from the Lac-M\u00e9gantic explosion and fire, there&#8217;s a fascinating bit of news I hadn&#8217;t heard before:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Responding to a reporter\u2019s question during Saturday\u2019s news conference, Lauzon confirmed that firefighters in a nearby community were called to a locomotive blaze on the same train a couple of hours before the derailment. Lauzon said he could not provide additional details about that fire since it was in another jurisdiction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This may or may not have any bearing at all on the subsequent runaway and crash, but it&#8217;s of interest. So far, there have been three reported deaths from the explosions and fire, with at least 40 people still unaccounted for. The PM will be visiting the town soon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prime Minister Stephen Harper is planning to visit this Quebec community Sunday, one day after powerful explosions caused by a train derailment levelled the town\u2019s downtown core and killed at least one person, with police predicting the death toll would rise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do expect we\u2019ll have other people who will be found deceased unfortunately,\u201d Lt. Guy Lapointe, a spokesman with Quebec provincial police, told a news conference Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Quebec say two more people are confirmed dead in the train derailment and massive fire in Lac-M\u00e9gantic to bring the declared death toll to five.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also expect that down the line \u2026 there will be more people reported missing than people actually found dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lapointe refused to give any estimate of people unaccounted for because emergency crews couldn\u2019t reach a two-kilometre-square section of the town out of concern that five of the train\u2019s tanker cars could still explode.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 680News round-up of details from the Lac-M\u00e9gantic explosion and fire, there&#8217;s a fascinating bit of news I hadn&#8217;t heard before: Responding to a reporter\u2019s question during Saturday\u2019s news conference, Lauzon confirmed that firefighters in a nearby community were called to a locomotive blaze on the same train a couple of hours before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,237],"tags":[923,113],"class_list":["post-20998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-railways","tag-derailment","tag-quebec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5sG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21293,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20998\/revisions\/21293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}