{"id":315453,"date":"2025-11-30T01:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T01:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/315453\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T01:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T01:26:14","slug":"properties-ordered-evacuated-after-train-derailment-east-of-cranbrook-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/315453\/","title":{"rendered":"Properties ordered evacuated after train derailment east of Cranbrook, B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least five properties in a rural area in the Regional District of East Kootenay in B.C. have been ordered evacuated after multiple train cars derailed Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

The regional district has issued the order in an area northwest of Bull River along the Kootenay River and Fenwick Road, according to its emergency response webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The district has also issued a state of local emergency<\/a>, stating the derailment “poses an existing or imminent threat to people and property within the area known as Electoral Area C.” <\/p>\n

The district said RCMP and railway police performed a “tactical evaluation” this morning to respond to the situation.<\/p>\n

Displaced residents can call emergency support services at 250-489-6977.<\/p>\n

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) said there were no injuries in the incident, which happened in a remote area about 16 kilometres east of Cranbrook at around 7 a.m., according to an emailed statement.<\/p>\n

The railway said about 12 cars were involved, including some carrying wood products as well as tanker cars carrying propane, according to early estimates.<\/p>\n

“CPKC crews and equipment have responded to the site to conduct a full assessment and begin work on a clean-up,” said the statement.<\/p>\n

The district’s emergency operations centre director Christina Carbrey said the evacuation order was done “out of an abundance of caution.”<\/p>\n

“Without having all [the] full details, we wanted to make sure that the residents in the immediate area were safe,” she said in an interview before 3 p.m. PT Saturday.<\/p>\n

The evacuation order will remain in place until the area is deemed safe for residents to return, she added.<\/p>\n

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it has deployed two investigators to examine the site.<\/p>\n

RCMP said in an emailed statement that it was notified of the incident at 9:30 a.m. and deferred further comment to the railway company and the TSB as lead investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-315453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}