UPDATED: Sgt. Jesse Grabow on the Callaway Train Derailment
Crews in Callaway, Minnesota are working to clean up after a train derails.
A freight train collided with a propane tanker truck that caught fire shortly after noon.
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KVRR’s Emily Welker says officials have evacuated the town of Callaway, Minnesota, about 11 miles outside of Detroit Lakes.
A Canadian Pacific train derailed after striking a commercial vehicle identified in Red Cross reports as a propane tanker.
Red Cross officials have set up an emergency shelter for evacuees at a nearby church.
Minnesota State Patrol officials say concerns over a second tanker nearby the grain elevator operations are part of what prompted the evacuation of the town.
More information will be updated as soon as it comes into the newsroom.
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Multiple crews respond to a train derailment in Callaway, Minnesota.
Several fire agencies and authorities from the Becker County Sheriff’s Office, Minnesota State Patrol and the White Earth Police Department are on the scene were a Canadian Pacific train possibly collided with a propane tanker truck.
Canadian Pacific says seven empty cars and the locomotive derailed and caught fire.
Minnesota State Patrol Sargent Jesse Grabow says the town of Callaway was evacuated and two people were injured in the crash.
Callaway is about 11 miles north of Detroit Lakes.
KVRR reporter Emily Welker and photojournalist Patrick Conteh are on the scene and will bring us more information as it comes available.
