Originally Posted by
mattm
What I read was that the firefighters turned off the engine (and thus the air brakes) after putting out the fire, per protocol. And that since the train was on a slope, the hand brakes couldn't hold it. Is the allegation now that the hand brakes weren't on at all?
The last quote from him said they had some (paraphrasing and pretending it's a quote) "questions about whether the hand brakes that he said were set were actually set".