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Quebec tragedy a cautionary tale for towns along tracks MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
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Langley is as ready as it can be, with all full-time and oncall firefighters trained in case a major train derailment took place here carrying dangerous, flammable goods. “We do some training with a conglomerate of rail companies,” said Bruce Ferguson, Township assistant fire chief. “They bring in a tank car and show us what to watch out for, what to be aware of.” But the Township fire department has dealt with at least two derailments before so they have the experience, said Ferguson. The most recent derailment took place Dec. 23, 2002, when a freight train derailed along Glover Road in Milner, at Smith Crescent. A gravel truck tried to beat the train at the crossing, which did not have lights and crossing gates, and the train clipped it, sending one car towards Glover and others stacking onto each other. It also took down power lines. One engine was destroyed in the wreck. An explosive train derailment in downtown Lac-Megantic, Que., on Saturday, raises the question in places like Langley, where rail traffic passes through
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busy intersections of town all day, including 200 Street, Fraser Highway and the Langley Bypass. In Quebec, the train was carrying 72 tank cars of crude oil. The derailment caused a massive explosion that, as of Monday afternoon, had killed 13. More than 50 others remain missing. It forced more than 2,000 out of their homes, and levelled at least 30 buildings in the downtown area. In Langley, crude oil isn’t being transported through Langley City or along Glover Road and Langley Bypass, on the Canadian Pacific tracks, but a small amount of it does pass through the Fort Langley CN line from time to time. On Feb. 15, 1986, a CN Rail freight train carrying liquid chemicals derailed just east of Fort Langley north of River Road, resulting in a 247,500 litre spill of ethylene dichloride and 60,000 litres of sodium hydroxide. Within a few hours, the spilled chemical had seeped into the ground. The spill is still being cleaned up today, and cleanup will continue for many years to come. “In that situation, the weather was in our favour,” said Ferguson. The derailment took place in winter. “The ignition point of those explosive fluids is 56 degrees Fahrenheit, and it was 46 degrees that day.”
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