(Source: New York Times opinion column by Eleanor Randolph, March 12, 2015)
NEW YORK — So far, Americans have been spared the kind of terrible tragedy that occurred two years ago in the small tourist town of Lac-Mégantic in southern Canada. On a midsummer morning, a row of tank cars filled with crude oil suddenly slammed into the center of town and exploded, killing 47 people in what bystanders called “a tsunami of fire.”
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