UPDATED: Village of Guernsey, Sask. evacuated after freight train derailment
Canadian Pacific says the train jumped the tracks about 6:15 a.m. near Guernsey, roughly 115 kilometres southeast of Saskatoon.
Patty Prentice says she was driving to work just after the derailment and saw a large fire and felt the heat as she drove by. There is no immediate word of injuries and Jack Gibney, the area reeve, says some 85 residents are being evacuated from the community.About 19 cars of a CP train derailed in the same area in December, causing a major blaze and leaking 1.5-million litres of oil.
Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency President Marlo Pritchard is scheduled to speak to media this afternoon.
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