Kathy Fox still remembers the looks on the faces of the grieving family members on the morning in August 2014, as she tried to explain how the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster had happened.
“You can imagine the grief, the shock, the anger, all the emotions,” Fox recalled.
“It was a hard day.”
The Transportation Safety Board chair was in the school auditorium to deliver the agency’s report on the tragedy—and the failures that allowed an unattended train carrying 72 tankers full of crude oil to careen off the rails at over 100 km/h, bursting into flames in the heart of the lakeside community on July 6, 2013….