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A Nantes resident was driving by and saw the fire. Nantes FD was called. They shut off the locomotive per procedure and put out the fire. The Nantes FD contacted somebody associated with the railroad. One or more RR reps showed up. The FD left. The RR reps did who knows what and left.

How do you know that part? I ask because it is the crux of this who incident.

33 posted on 07/10/2013 1:36:10 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (When America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)

To: Balding_Eagle

Lac-Mégantic timeline

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/M%C3%A9gantic+fire+timeline/8626739/story.html

11:25 p.m.: An engineer from the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway (MMA) parks a train carrying 72 tankers, each carrying thousands of litres of crude oil (roughly 100,000 litres), and five locomotives in Nantes, approximately 11 kilometres outside of Lac-Mégantic. According to the MMA, he had stopped for a crew change and then retired to a nearby motel for the night.

11:30 p.m.: A resident in Nantes calls 911 after seeing a parked locomotive on fire between Nantes and Lac-Mégantic. Firefighters arrive on the scene and are able to extinguish the blaze.

11:42 p.m.: 12 firefighters arrive on the scene. Nobody (from MMA or otherwise) was there.

SATURDAY

12:12 a.m.: Fire in locomotive is extinguished.

12:13 to 12:15 a.m.: Two MMA employees arrive on the scene. Firefighters leave soon after establishing that the situation is under control.

1:15 a.m.: The first explosion in Lac-Mégantic is reported, followed by at least two others. Initial reports suggest 30 buildings are destroyed. Much of downtown is flooded with crude oil and fire. Patrons of a crowded bar flee. Many remain unaccounted for.

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