Another Crude Oil 'Bomb Train' explodes

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/06/1368979/-Yet-another-crude-oil-bomb-train-goes-boom-this-time-in-Illinois-Regulations-clearly-inadequate

Six cars of a 105-car train carrying crude oil derailed near Galena, Illinois, Thursday. Two cars caught fire and burned throughout the night. The train was carrying gassy oil from the Bakken Shale formation of North Dakota where an economic boom in the production of oil pried from rock by hydraulic fracking has boosted domestic oil production to levels not seen since 1970. In 2008, oil by rail barely made a statistical blip, with 9,500 carloads moved. In 2014, the number exceeded 500,000 rail cars of crude.
The derailment took place near the Iowa border where the Galena and Mississippi rivers come together. Galena was once the home of Ulysses S. Grant and is today a tourist destination of about 3,200 residents. Authorities urged people up to a mile away to evacuate, but only one family did. No injuries were reported.
The carrier, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, issued a statement:
At this time, we do not know the cause of the derailment. In addition to the railroad employees currently on the scene, additional BNSF personnel arrived soon after the event occurred to be part of the response. BNSF is working with local responders and has notified the Federal Railroad Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board of the incident. BNSF also promptly notified various local and state officials from Illinois and Iowa. [...]