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“They had already pulled the line,” McDevitt said. “These guys were quick. I mean they were real sharp. I ran past Raymmond and Tony was up there on the line. . . ” There was a fire under the train and there was a worse danger: Wagon 7s gas tank had been knocked loose and it was blazing.
‘Tony Zopp went with his gear on and actually kicked that tank away from the particular car,” McDevitt said, “and that probably saved a few people right there, I think.”
Zopp went under the flames shooting up along the cars to get at the tank. “I got it away from the train, then we had to keep the train cooled down from the heat so it wouldn’t catch fire,” Zopp said.
The leaking fuel spread fast down the line of cars. Passengers began to emerge and came toward it. Zopp yelled at them to stay back and doused the moving fire until it was out.
While McDevitt helped Zopp extinguish the flames, Chief Lomax was calling the dispatcher.
The call was logged at 7:37 —five minutes after Lomax reported that he had arrived at the car fire, nine minutes after the volunteers were dispatched.
“I heard Clyde scream over the radio that his truck had been hit by a train,” Richard Sanders recalls. Sanders is assistant chief in Warrenton Co. 6, and president of the Fauquier Volunteer Fire and Rescue
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