" a propane truck pulling a second container left the road and the first tanker caught fire"

Sorry, but this is a very confusing statement.

These types of problems reminds us that we live in he middle of nowhere, and we do not have the infrastructure available to handle these types of problems.

I certainly agree that people should have been re-routed as soon as possible, however this road should have been made passable asap.

Blowing up the second tanker was the right choice, however the decision should have been made 24 hours earlier. Problem is, I doubt if we have the trained people near at hand to do these types of things.

It would be interesting to know how they arrived at the decision to blow the truck, how they actually got the job done, and who did it.

We have thousands of miles of highway through-out the interior, and very little infrastructure to look after it. We need to support the location of the Rocky Mountain Rangers in Prince George, and ensure that they have the necessary equipment etc; to respond to forest fires, natural disasters,etc.

We also need to have a helicopter emergency vehicle available to attend accidents in remote areas like Mcbride, Hixon, and Highway 16. Getting people to a hospital for treatment after an accident without delay is a matter of life and death.

With all the money spent on various and sundry programs, that have little or no meaning to society as a whole, we need to refocus our thinking.

There are some places on the Hart Hiway, Higway 16 East and West where we dont even have phone service. This has been going on for years.

The Taliban in Afghanistan have better phone service than we do in the North Central BC. Its time for us to get some bang for our buck.

We pay huge dollars in taxes, and all we get is a bunch of useless bridges, and buildings.

We need more than that.

The province can't handle or organize a tanker fire on a highway, just imagine the big down in happy land like happened in Japan.

The propane truck was a B train . The truck was pulling 2 trailers . The second one exploded , while the first or lead trailer was left to burn off.

What's wrong using the Rail Road for Goods like it ?

"What's wrong using the Rail Road for Goods like it ?"

-Propane trucks like this are used for distribution to gas stations and other consumers that require large amonouts of propane.

The second tanker exploded, the lead trailer burned for a few days, and then finally they blew it up.

The railway is used for transportation of propane, gas, diesel, etc; etc; however you need hiway transport it you want overnight delivery.

When it comes to customer service, railways are basically useless.

I agree with seamutt, we are very unpepaired for any major event, and I believe that with all the development activity in the northern interiour there is a need to review alot of things.

SAR search and rescue, Hwy rescue groups, they have a lot of great volunteers, but they are limited by there funding, authority and number of members. For their size of membership they do provide a great service and help alot of people.
All of these are dependant on volunteers. Hats off!!

RCMP Special responce teams

I know in bigger centers they have special responce managers, Do we have something like that for our area? I`m sure we should have, and hope we do.

I believe that it would most likely be the RCMP that would coordinate all other required organizations to deal with something like the tanker incident.

Why didn`t they just shoot it, or go online to get instructions to make a demolition device to deal with the issue, if they didn`t have what they needed.

I think that the hwy systems are vital to the local economy and the health and welfare of our population in northern BC.

This Tanker incident is a good eye opener as to how easy it is to disrupt our hwy systems. I`m sure there was an economic cost to many that would have been avoidable if action was taken swiftly.

the tanker incident did have a cost to a whole bunch of people, and companies.

The points that I would like to draw attention to is inaction costs alot to others. wheather it is time or money.

Although this streach of hwy is not very busy compaired to some of the others in the area, it is part of the Trans-Canada hwy. How many hours was it closed for because of one B-train of propane?

We as a developed country can do better than that.

I do believe a lot of people around PG have some good pics of what happens when CN transports fuel cars!