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The Wall Street Journal reports:
A team of experts released a chemical from five tanker cars and ignited it Monday afternoon to prevent a potentially catastrophic explosion following a train derailment Friday along the border of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine maintained a mandatory evacuation Monday for residents within a one-mile radius of East Palestine, an Ohio village of nearly 5,000 people, after 50 cars of a Norfolk Southern Corp. train derailed Friday at about 9 p.m., causing a chemical fire.
A team led by Norfolk Southern set charges on five tanker cars to drain vinyl chloride—a colorless gas that can easily burn and is used to make polyvinyl chloride hard-plastic resin—into a trench, where the chemical was ignited with flares and burned off.
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Ohio authorities are rushing to prevent a potentially catastrophic explosion of derailed chemical-laden rail cars. “Everybody in Pennsylvania and Ohio who’s in this area, you need to leave. This is a matter of life and death.” https://t.co/FfsjJlS7vY via @WSJ
— Paul Page (@PaulPage) February 6, 2023
HAPPENING NOW:
Release of dangerous chemical in East Palestine, Ohio. @WTAE pic.twitter.com/uxly6qTJHt
— Ashley Zilka (@ashleyzilka) February 6, 2023
Master Sgt. David Hurst of the Ohio National Guard’s 52nd Civil Support Team discusses potential impact of chemical plume emanating from train derailment site in East Palestine, Feb. 6, 2023. Over 100 ONG members are supporting local authorities following the Feb. 3 derailment. pic.twitter.com/1upE3zJAkJ
— Ohio National Guard (@OHNationalGuard) February 6, 2023
#NorfolkSouthern officials said crews completed the release of #toxicchemicals that had been carried on a train that #derailed in #EastPalestine, #Ohio. They said a burn off of material would continue past nightfall. #trainderailment https://t.co/11LQtVyBiM
— Brian Pia (@brianpia) February 6, 2023