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Village evacuated after Quebec train derailment

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Now this is a really strange and pregnant detail to emerge from the constantly stumbling explanation of what happened to this train.  After the engineer left his train for the night, the locomotive caught fire, and the fire department was called to deal with it.        QUOTE FROM THE LINK:  Lauzon, the fire chief, said that firefighters in a nearby community were called to a locomotive blaze on the same train a few hours before the derailment. Lauzon said he could not provide additional details about that fire since it was in another jurisdiction. Nantes Fire Chief Patrick Lambert couldn't be immediately reached, but McGonigle confirmed the fire department showed up after the first engineer tied up and went to a local hotel and after someone reported a fire. "We know that one of our employees from our engineering department showed up at the same time to assist the fire department. Exactly what they did is being investigated so the engineer wasn't the last man to touch that train, we know that, but we're not sure what happened," McGonigle said.   <a href="http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/07/canadian_train_derailment_death_toll_climbs_to_5_in_lac-megantic_quebec_about_40.html">http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/07/canadian_train_derailment_death_toll_climbs_to_5_in_lac-megantic_quebec_about_40.html</a>
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