Officials with an eastern New Brunswick community say they’ve been left wondering whether a CN freight train that travelled through on Tuesday was responsible for a wildfire that burned down an unoccupied house and left residents on edge.
Mayor, fire chief say wildfire started shortly after CN train went through
Aidan Cox · CBC News
· Posted: May 08, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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About 10 hectares of land primarily along a railway track burned Tuesday in Rogersville, a community that’s part of the municipality of Nouvelle-Arcadie. (Radio-Canada)
Officials of an eastern New Brunswick community are questioning the role a freight train might have played in a wildfire that burned down a vacant home and left residents on edge earlier this week.
Firefighters in the municipality of Nouvelle-Arcadie battled a wildfire Tuesday that burned roughly 10 hectares before it was contained and later put out.
What caused the fire hadn’t been declared as of Thursday.
“There’s no proof yet, but it’s very obvious that the, the fire happened as soon as the train went by like it happened last summer,” Mayor Jimmy Bourque said.
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