There will be an informational meeting at 4:30 this afternoon at the Lions Club in Plaster Rock for residents of Wapske, New Brunswick who were evacuated due to this week's train derailment. This meeting is for evacuees only.
A team of disaster volunteers with the Canadian Red Cross has deployed from Fredericton northward 215 kilometres to the Village of Plaster Rock to assist local authorities with a reception centre and shelter if needed for any evacuees following derailment Tuesday evening of several cars from a CN Rail freight train.
Today the Canadian Transportation Agency on suspended the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway's permit to continue operating in Canada because the railway does not have adequate liability insurance.
Officials say two more bodies have been found after a deadly fire that destroyed the center of a lakeside village in Eastern Quebec. 15 people are confirmed dead and more than 40 are still missing after a runaway oil tanker train derailed and exploded early Saturday in Lac-Mégantic, about 10 miles from the Maine border.