Gilles Fluet
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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After a parked train came loose, picked up speed, roared off the tracks and exploded in the middle of the night, burnt rail tankers are still steaming in the heart of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec.
Officials in Lac-Megantic gave another sad update today.
38 people are now confirmed dead.
12 have been identified.
My name is Gilles Flouet, and I was an eyewitness to the arrival of the ghost train in Lac-Megantic, where I saw the train rushing past me.
I realized it couldn't make the upcoming curve and that everything was going to explode.
I shouted to the couples in front of me, let's run, it's going to blow up.
And while I was helping the woman up, three times she'd fallen into the street as she was running away.
That gave me a chance to see the train start to derail.
And everything that followed right up until it got very close to us on Frontenac Street, where the music cafe was, and where most of the people died.
Normally, I'm from Legantic, so I've known about trains since I was a kid.
We could predict when a train was coming because we could hear the train whistles.
as they sounded when the train approached other crossings before, before the ones where we were, but this time it was a ghost train.
There was no crew on board, there was no shouts, and it was traveling at 105 km per hour.
The warning signals at the railroad crossing didn't have time to signal the train's presence.
There was no horn, no engine, no brakes, no cars clattering together as normally they would when a train breaks.
Continuing from the explosion in the city, train derailment, I'd never been through anything like that before.
It was the result of that kind of stress.
I was in a state of shock.
It took quite a while.
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