多伦多火车出轨，27节车厢脱离轨道，化学品泄漏，附近近千人居民紧急疏散【照片】

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Train derailment: 'The ground went boom'

'If that train had rolled over one more time, it would have been in our yard,' homeowner says of midday accident that caused zero injuries

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Cars that jumped track come close to backyards in quiet neighbourhood.


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OSHAWA – Just after 2 p.m. yesterday, Earl Mackintosh was mowing his backyard lawn when he glanced at the freight train barrelling down the tracks behind his Oshawa home. What he saw did not look good.
"There were flames shooting out from underneath one of the engines and then crash, crash, crash ... all the boxcars just started tumbling end over end," Mackintosh, 67, told the Star yesterday.

"I was no more than 30 feet from the railcars when they jumped the track. I was not so much scared as amazed."

Canadian Pacific says two locomotives and 27 cars from a 111-car westbound freight train went off the rails at 2:10 p.m. yesterday near Park Rd. S., north of Highway 401. The derailment occurred in the heart of a quiet residential neighbourhood and sent tankers and boxcars tumbling perilously close to homes.

"For a few seconds I had a `Lord, don't take me moment,'" said Krystyn Jones, Mackintosh's wife. "If that train had rolled over one more time, it would have been in our yard."

Charlie Stacey was getting ready to take his dogs for a walk just after 2 p.m. yesterday when, "all of a sudden, the whole ground just went boom, boom, boom."

Stacey, whose Montrave Ave. home also backs onto the CP Rail tracks, ran outside to see several railcars start piling up underneath the Park Rd. bridge.

"Then one of the rails curved up 15 feet in the air. That's what really freaked me out ... it was surreal," he said.

Jones and Mackintosh, were among about 1,000 local residents and students evacuated from their homes and two schools after the derailment, according to Oshawa Mayor John Gray. Police said residents were evacuated from a 10-square block area surrounding the wreckage.

By last night, police were allowing some residents to return home.
"This is a significant derailment," said Nancy Van Rooy, a Durham Regional Police spokesperson. She stressed, however, that further investigations are needed before the extent of the damage can be confirmed.

No injuries were reported, she said.
Mike Lovecchio, a spokesperson for Canadian Pacific, said one of the derailed cars contained hydrogen peroxide, a common household disinfectant.

"The car is upright and is not leaking," he said, adding that another car carrying sodium hydroxide, a cleaning agent, was not impacted by the derailment.

The cleanup process was expected to continue last night because the tanker carrying hydrogen peroxide was underneath several other boxcars.

 

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CTV Toronto - Oshawa neighbourhood still under evacuation order - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television

Oshawa neighbourhood still under evacuation order

Updated: Fri Jun. 05 2009 11:00:24 PM

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An evacuation order continued late Friday for hundreds of residents forced from their homes after a massive Canadian Pacific freight train hauling chemicals derailed in Oshawa, Ont.
The derailment, which occurred Friday afternoon, prompted the evacuation of locals living within a one-kilometre radius of the crash scene. Area schools were also evacuated.
"Residents are being told to remain away from their homes until further notice," Durham Regional Police Sgt. Nancy van Rooy told CTV.ca in an email Friday night.
Earlier in the evening, there were conflicting reports about whether some residents had been cleared to return home.
But van Rooy said that only residents of one small street, Greenwood Ave., had received permission to go home as of Friday night.
Police say the train derailed near the Canadian Pacific rail yard in southern Oshawa at about 2:15 p.m.
"Upwards of 20 cars or more have been derailed," van Rooy said.
"A number of them are tanker cars carrying chemicals, but I've not been made aware of any hazards."
Canadian Pacific later confirmed that 27 of the train's 111 cars derailed.
Hydrogen peroxide and caustic soda were among the chemicals on board the train, though police do not consider them to be hazardous to residents.
There were no reported injuries on Friday.
CP spokesman Mike LoVecchio said the clean-up effort had yet to begin Friday night because of safety precautions.
LoVecchio added that the safety of CP employees and the people in the surrounding area were the immediate priority at the scene.
"Once we complete our assessment, we will then be developing a plan to recover the product in the rail cars, and that's when the clean-up will start," he told CTV.ca.
"But I can't estimate when that will be."
One of the train's tankers burst into flames following the derailment, but was doused by emergency crews who arrived at the scene. Residents say the smoke could be seen from the nearby Highway 401.
Chopper footage of the derailment site showed some of the off-track train cars encroaching on the backyards of Oshawa residents. Other train cars were crunched underneath a nearby overpass.
At least two of the cars were in the backyard of a home that backs onto to rail corridor where the derailment occurred -- and it was clear that there were at least a few close calls.
John Bould, a resident whose house backs onto the part of the tracks where the train derailed, said the derailment was sudden and scary.
"I started running and I thought I was going to die," Bould told CTV Toronto on Friday.
His next-door-neighbour told CTV Toronto that his seven-year-old son often plays near the part of the fence that was torn down by a tripped-up train car.
Eighteen-year-old Tara St. Jean, who lives across the street from the derailment site, was in her bedroom when the train went off the tracks.
She said the incident has left her feeling shaken.
"(I was) scared about having to leave, where to go, if it was going to blow up and I would have nothing," she said Friday.
CTV Toronto's Paul Bliss reported that firefighters were applying foam to the underside of the locomotives to prevent a diesel spill -- which could cause a fire -- on Friday afternoon.
The derailment did not affect commuter rail service, nor did it impact traffic on the 401.
William Brehl, national president of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, told ctvtoronto.ca that it is too soon to tell what may have caused the derailment.
But Brehl said more than 80 per cent of derailments are caused by track or equipment failures.
"I would say the odds are that it's track or equipment failure, but you can't say for sure until the investigation is complete."
Brehl said it was likely that either two or three CP employees had been on board the train at the time of the derailment - an engineer, a conductor and possibly a trainman.
Federal transportation investigators are expected to arrive at the derailment site early Friday evening.
With reports from CTV Toronto reporters Paul Bliss, Jim Junkin and Reshmi Nair and files from The Canadian Press

Pieces of the freight train sit off the tracks in Oshawa on Friday, June 5, 2009. (Ski Hiller / MyNews.CTV.ca)

This image taken from CTV Toronto helicopter footage shows the derailment site on Friday, June 5, 2009.

This image taken from CTV Toronto helicopter footage shows crews working at the accident site on Friday, June 5, 2009.

 

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........我靠,我们喝的水......完蛋了,自来水被污染了

 

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太平洋铁路火车在Oshawa出轨 上千人疏散

昨天下午2点15分左右，隶属太平洋铁路公司的1列火车在多伦多东面Oshawa 市Park Rd. S.夹Hwy 401 附近出轨，至少有27节车皮滑出轨道，其中1个发生爆炸并起火、2个车厢撞入一所居民住宅的后园。由于车厢内主要装载化学物品，当局要求出事地点1公里范围内的上千居民撤离，包括2所学校。

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所幸事件中没有人员受伤，但因火车载有化学物品，包括双氧水(hydrogen peroxide)，火车公司职员及救护员一直在现场戒备，消防员则不断喷水，以防止化学品进一步扩散或燃烧。GO火车的营运没有受到影响，事故的具体原因仍在调查之中。