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<p>[quote user="Murphy Siding"]</p> <p>[quote user="daveklepper"]</p> <p>2.   The fire chief should have insured that either the engineer return to the train, or the a watch be posted until a qualified railroad employee took charge, but should not have left the train unattended.</p> <div style="clear:both;"><br />[/quote]     Suppose the fire chief had left someone to *watch* the train, and it started rolling away?  Then what?</div> <div style="clear:both;"><br />[/quote]</div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="clear:both;"> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">I don’t think it was up to the fire chief to make sure the train stayed put.  Shutting down the one running unit should not have allowed the train to roll.  Even if the fire spread and all five engines burned up, the train should have not moved.  So when the firemen put out the small fire, they would see no need to watch the train to make sure that it did not move. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">In any case, someone from the MM&A was at the scene during the time when the engine was on fire and the firemen extinguished it.  The news has not been clear about this, but it is my understanding that the person on the scene from the MM&A was the person first contacted by the individual who first spotted the fire and reported it.  So, in other words, the fire was first reported to the MM&A, and then the message was conveyed to the fire department. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">If somebody of official capacity were at the site, and saw the train begin to move, it might have been possible for them to react quickly enough to stop it.  But there are some variables, and they might not have tried the most effective measure first.  So time could quickly run out as the train gained speed.  The news did report that one person who lived near the track observed the train begin to move, and slowly roll away into the darkness with no lights turned on.</span></p> </div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div>
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