Lac Megantic: Derailment brings back memories for Mississauga residents
As Dunstan Bazely watches the news unfold about the train derailment in Lac-Megantic, he is brought back in time more than 30 years to when an explosion happened feet from his Mississauga home, sending a fireball into the night sky from a line of train cars.
It was Nov. 11, 1979. His daughter was watching a movie with a friend. His neighbours had just gotten home from a formal affair, all dressed up. The first explosion came shortly before midnight.
One car in a train carrying an alphabet soup of hazardous chemicals on the tracks that wind through Mississauga caught fire while travelling because an older-style bearing wasn’t properly lubricated. The blaze spread and more explosions followed and eventually Bazely and his wife took his two daughters to the safety of a family member’s apartment further from the blaze.
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