Union Pacific crude train derails in Oregon

OREANDA-NEWS. June 06, 2016. A Union Pacific crude train derailed and caught fire today near Mosier, Oregon, the Hood River county sheriff's office said today.

The office had no further details about the accident. Union Pacific did not immediately return a message.

The Oregon Department of Transportation closed a section of Interstate 84 after 4pm ET because of the fire.

Mosier is on the Columbia river about 68 miles east of Portland.

The accident is the 11th fiery crude train derailment since a runaway Bakken unit train slammed into Lac Megantic, Quebec, in July 2013, killing 47 people. The last oil train fire occurred in May 2015 in North Dakota.

Today's accident was the first crude train fire involving Union Pacific.