Evacuations over following train derailment in New Brunswick
Posted January 11, 2014 9:19 am.
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PLASTER ROCK, NB (NEWS1130) – About 150 people who were evacuated after a CN freight train derailed Tuesday night in northwestern New Brunswick are allowed to return home.
Fires that had raged at the site of the derailment in the community of Wapske are finally out.
CN spokesman Jim Feeny says crews made good progress overnight Friday in extinguishing the flames, removing material from derailed cars and getting a start on repairing the broken track.
On Friday, a huge fireball shot into the sky as crews blasted holes in three tanker cars carrying liquefied petroleum gas to allow vapour and gas to burn off.
Fires involving a crude oil tanker and diesel fuel from a derailed locomotive had earlier burned out.
As for the cause of the derailment, Feeny says investigators are still looking at the possibility that a wheel or axle problem on a freight car was to blame, but he cautioned that no conclusions have been reached.
