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A Quebec town was evacuated after a train carrying petroleum products derailed and exploded in the early hours of Saturday morning, setting a massive blaze that authorities said continued to burn as responders feared additional blasts. Several tanker cars exploded around 1 a.m. local time on Saturday in Lac-Megantic in the Canadian province, a lakeside town of about 6,000 people near the border with the U.S. Police said the blast was powerful enough to set ablaze several buildings in the town center that includes a library, bars, apartments, and stores.
"When you see the center of your town almost destroyed, you'll understand that we're asking ourselves how we are going to get through this event," town Mayor Colette Roy-Laroche said at a news briefing, according to Reuters.
An area of a half mile around the train has been secured by police, but the fire continued to burn through Saturday morning, Sergeant Gregory Gomez del Prado of the Quebec Provincial Police told NBC News.
"There are still wagons which we think are pressurized. We're not sure because we can't get close, so we're working on the assumption that all the cars were pressurized and could explode. That's why progress is slow and tough," local fire chief Denis Lauzon told Reuters.
Police officials said they believe at least 50 tanks caught fire.
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Saw this earlier today; crazy shit. Here's a video from someone way too close.
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toasty
Those who rate dumb are the terrorists who made toast on the train...
1 confirmed death.
[url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/07/06/quebec-train-derailment-fire.html[/url]
Normally this kind of stuff doesn't happen in populated areas.
Holy shit, those explosions are terrifying.
It must have been pretty damn scary to see this.
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