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Lac-Megantic, Canada - Major train derailement
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An excellent example of international co-operation where departments from Maine also responded to this incident.
 

The area of maine this is "close" to is very remote, the closest maine department to respond had to travel apx 1/2 hour through remote maine wilderness before even hitting the canadian line and still had a 25-30 minute ride into canada to get to Lac-megantic.  The furthest to travel from the states to Lac-Megantic (I believe) was Farmington Maine, they had over 2 hour drive, almost 100 miles, and I saw pictures of their Pierce platform operating.  I believe the call to these Maine departments went out very early into the incident and I don't believe they were called to "relieve" crews that had been operating for a while, just to give you an idea of how far out aid was coming from in the early stages of this incident, it really is amazing.  
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Lac-Megantic, Canada - Major train derailement - by Guest - 07-07-2013, 05:14 PM
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