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Long Beach Fire Responds To An Evening Train Derailment
By Jackawa Jackson | June 22, 2009
At 9:44 pm on June 18th Long Beach Fire Department units were dispatched to a reported train derailment at 975 PIER F. On arrival E-1 found a Pacific Harbor Lines train with 3-empty well cars derailed. The derailment occurred at the curve of Pier F ave in between the LBCT yard and a Tidelands injection well. Fortunately, there were no containers on the damaged portion of the train. The train was 86-cars long with 35 loads on the north end of the train about 1-mile away. Pacific was in the process of transferring containers from LBCT to Pier A. A total of 24 firefighters responded to this incident.
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