Tangled cars and billowing smoke: Remembering Hinton rail disaster 40 years later [Yahoo! Finance Canada]
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Hanington was volunteer firefighter doing what he could to help after a CN Rail freight train and a Via Rail Super Continental passenger train collided east of Hinton, Alta., on Feb. 8, 1986. Twenty-three people died. He was 22 at the time. Initial details about the scope and the location of the crash that day, he said, were "sketchy." When they got closer, they followed the plume of billowing smoke to the crash site. "As we got closer it was like, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what we're seeing,'" he said. "It was just the pile of cars and the smoke. It was unreal. It was just a big, tangled mess." Hanington said paramedics followed right behind them and began helping survivors while he and his team put out the fires. The horror, he said, was all around. "The one car had burned already. You could see figures inside," he said. "I remember stepping over pieces of remains on the tracks where the freight cars had come over and hit the passenger cars, and people were inside,"
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