2023-07-06 01:46:03
A few hours from the tenth anniversary of the commemorations of the Lac-Mégantic rail tragedy, the former fire chief of Lac-Mégantic, Denis Lauzon, who was in office on July 6, 2013, returned to this infernal night.
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Events that he and his fellow sappers of the time will never forget.
In the excerpts of audio communications between his service and that of the emergency center, we understand that between the first call and his arrival on the scene of the derailment in the city center, the situation had taken on an unsuspected magnitude.
Denis Lauzon, who left the region in 2016 to become a teacher at the Quebec Fire Protection Institute, says he learned to manage the stress and anxiety that still haunts him a decade following the tragedy.
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Like many of his fellow firefighters present the night of the derailment, he had to learn to tame bad memories.
Among the positive aspects that he retains, in addition to the resilience of his community, is this outpouring of solidarity with his brigade, the some 80 fire departments from Quebec and the United States to support them during the weeks that followed the tragic events.
*See the report by Jean-François Desbiens in the video above*
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