The Lac-Megantic railroad disaster was a very serious event that occurred in Quebec Canada at about 1:15 in the morning.It started as a technical difficulties with the breaks of the train. When the train caught fire the fire fighter distinguished the train and shut off its locomotives causing the breaks to be two weak to support the train. The train then rolled in to the city causing it to escalate to a much more serious situation. Six million liters of crude oil was released immediately into the town of Lac-Megantic. This event cause 47 people to die and also caused as much as 2000 people to be forced out of their homes due to crude oil contamination. There were many lawsuits for the families of those effected in this situation. However hopefully knowledge was gained from this situation and their will be no more incidents like it in the future.
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