{"id":22254,"date":"2013-07-06T22:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T18:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=22254"},"modified":"2013-07-06T22:04:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T18:04:41","slug":"canadian-town-evacuated-after-freight-train-carrying-fuel-derails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=22254","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Town Evacuated After Freight Train Carrying Fuel Derails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ABC_canada_derailment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22252\" alt=\"ABC_canada_derailment\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ABC_canada_derailment-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ABC_canada_derailment-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ABC_canada_derailment-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ABC_canada_derailment.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The entire town of Lac-Megantic in Quebec, Canada, was evacuated after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire, officials told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Gl49CpPQtc\" target=\"external\">The 80-car-long freight train exploded<\/a> at approximately 1 a.m. Saturday morning, filling the sky with thick, black smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Dispatcher Stan Wheeler with the Franklin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office in Maine told ABC News Radio that more than 30 firefighters responded to the massive fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-canada.ca\/regions\/estrie\/2013\/07\/06\/001-explosion-lac-megantic-train.shtml\" target=\"external\">Radio-Canada reported <\/a>the train was en route to Maine. It is unclear how the train derailed, or if there are any victims at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire town of Lac-Megantic in Quebec, Canada, was evacuated after a freight train carrying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}