Crews battle oil train blaze in Canada

Emergency crews battled a massive fire after a Canadian National tanker train carrying oil and gas derailed west of Edmonton, Alberta, overnight. No injuries have been reported so far.

Crews battle oil train blaze in Canada

Emergency crews battled a massive fire after a Canadian National tanker train carrying oil and gas derailed west of Edmonton, Alberta, overnight. No injuries have been reported so far.

Canadian National spokesman Louis-Antoine Paquin said 13 cars – four carrying petroleum crude oil and nine loaded with liquified petroleum gas – came off the tracks around 1am in the hamlet of Gainford, about 50 miles (80 kms) from Edmonton.

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