Another train derailment in Canada

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Explosion, huge fireball in CN tanker train derailment in Alberta

Emergency crews in Alberta continue to monitor a massive fire after a CN tanker train carrying gas and oil derailed about 80 kilometres west of Edmonton overnight.

RCMP Air 1 helicopter captures an explosion after a train derailed in Gainford, Alta. on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013. (Parkland County / Facebook)

CTV News,

19 October, 2013

Residents of Parkland Country reported seeing a fireball shoot across the sky after one of the cars carrying liquefied petroleum gas exploded.

Jim Phelan, Parkland County fire chief, told a news conference Saturday the explosion came first.

A helicopter camera captures the aftermath of an explosion after a train derailed in Gainford, Alta. on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013.

RCMP Air 1 helicopter captures an explosion after a train derailed in Gainford, Alta. on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013. (Parkland County / Facebook)

RCMP Air 1 helicopter captures an explosion after a train derailed in Gainford, Alta. on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013. (Parkland County / Facebook)

“How it exploded and why, that’s yet to be determined,” Phelan said. “But the one car exploded and caused damage to several other cars, and caused the derailment.”

He said two of the cars remain on fire as of Saturday afternoon, but the risk of another explosion is low.

Thirteen cars came off the tracks around 1 a.m. Saturday -- 9 of which were carrying liquefied petroleum gas and four that were carrying crude oil.

The derailment prompted the evacuation of the nearly hamlet of Gainford.

Gainford resident Jeanette Hall said she awoke to what sounded like “an airplane landing on Highway 16.”

“I heard the cars tipping over and there was a huge crash that shook the house -- then the fireball,” Hall told CTV News Channel.

She said the derailment happened about 100 meters outside her home.

The heat that followed the explosion was “unbearable.”

“My entire front yard was on fire,” Hall said. “I can’t believe we walked away from that.”

A local state of emergency was declared and a one-mile perimeter from the epicentre of the derailment has been evacuated.

No injuries have been reported, but officials say residents won’t be able to return to their homes for at least 24 hours.

Parkland County Mayor Rod Shaigec said he’s grateful the damage following the derailment wasn’t greater.

“We saw the incident in Quebec, Lac-Meganitc, and the significant loss of life and we’re very fortunate that this incident wasn’t of that magnitude,” he said.

Officials report 49 individuals from Gainford, a community of roughly 100, have registered at an evacuation reception centre.

A portion of Highway 16 has closed due to the fire. Traffic is expected to be rerouted for the next 48 hours.

“There’s a major risk for the area, so we are rerouting traffic, keeping people far, far from that area,” Parkland County spokesperson Carson Mills said Saturday.

The Transportation Safety Board said it has deployed a team of investigators to the derailment site.

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