Martin County Fire Rescue prepared vulnerability reports showing what may happen during a railcar incident as FECR may transport chemicals like Anhydrous Ammonia, Chlorine Gas, Liquefied Propane Gas, and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) through a population of nearly 7 million people in South Florida. Our safety, our communities, our economy, our lives, should be protected from a Lac Megantic type of potential disaster. Lac-Megantic and the people who perished should never be forgotten. In 2014, Fortress Investment Group scooped up the bankrupt railroad company causing the Lac-Megantic disaster. Fortress Investment Group is the ultimate owner of FEC/AAF. Footage from Canada Oil Train Explosion Lac Megantic Full HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPVRRgAtL4A Following is a column on Lac-Magnetic as of Jan. 2015 as reported by Justin Mikulka of Desmog. “So the oil trains will be back in Lac-Megantic by 2016 running on the same dangerous route as always. Residents had proposed rerouting the tracks around the town, but that would have cost FORTRESS Investment Group MONEY THEY WEREN'T WILLING TO SPEND. …..He also didn’t put the oil into the Chaudiere River, a beautiful river that flows out of Lac-Megantic and is popular with fisherman. This year, on the one-year anniversary of the accident, the people of Lac Megantic released 5,000 new trout into the lake, but cleaning up oil spills takes more than just putting new fish in the water. Steve St-Pierre has been fishing the Chaudiere River his whole life and the river he knew no longer exists.” For the full story, please follow this link: http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/01/01/dangerous-oil-trains-return-lac-megantic-while-town-still-recovers FNAA is providing the following links to create awareness of what is traveling, or may be traveling in the future, on the FECR corridor. FNAA would like to thank Martin County for producing these studies so that the public can be aware of the potential risks associated with cargo on the FEC train route. Please visit the Martin County website to view all of the All Aboard Florida/FEC reports. http://www.floridanotallaboard.net/martin-county-page-on-all-aboard-florida/martin-county-page-on-all-aboard-florida/ Martin County Fire Rescue Vulnerability Studies on LNG/Chemicals: Martin County's Vulnerability Analysis of Florida East Coast Rail’s Transportation of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) https://www.martin.fl.us/sites/default/files/meta_page_files/Presentation_Report%20AAF%20LNG%20Vulnerability%20Final_12_15_15.pdf Railcar Chemical Release Vulnerability Study https://www.martin.fl.us/sites/default/files/meta_page_files/ADM_AAF_Railcar_Plume_Modeling_May_2015_0.pdf Sun Sentinel columnist, Mike Mayo, sounds the warning to South Florida about FEC transporting LNG: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-lng-rail-mayocol-b120615-20151204-column.html Please join us at 10:00 a.m., April 9, at Memorial Park in Stuart to change the course of AAF. We must insist the Federal Railroad Administration protect our lives, our community, and our economy. http://www.floridanotallaboard.net/news/memorialparkrally/ “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead