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Fire that destroyed most of B.C. village of Lytton not linked to railway: TSB

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Suspicions that a train was at least partially to blame for a fire that consumed most of a B.C. village this summer have been shut down in a just-published report.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada made the results of its investigation public Thursday morning.

That train went through the area believed to be the fire's origin 18 minutes before the fire was reported. But there have been no reports of anything that may have caused a fire, the TSB said. Investigators also tried to obtain satellite images, but weren't able to access anything taken around the time the train passed through Lytton.

The temperature reached 49.6 C the day before the fire started, prompting the evacuation of the entire village. It was a record not only for Lytton but for the entire country. According to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, the fire caused about $78 million in insured property damage.

 

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TSB s timing is impeccable coming out with this brief report just a few days before the Lytton rail bridge is back in service. Wow.

We all knew that was the case based on forestry reports. Just a sleazy cash grab..

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