when they looked out their window and they saw this. he said the noise was so loud and the explosion was so big he was sure a full size jet line her crashed into the ground across the river from their house. he learned whether they got through to 911 that it had actually been a train derailment, an oil train derailment. a train with 107 tanker cars carrying crude oil had been flung off the tracks, 27 cars rerailed, 15 ruptured. only one person was injured in that huge explosion but 1,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes for days while that oil train fire burned itself out. the fire was too big and too hot to put out for days. they had to let it burn. that oil train derailment in west virginia was the latest a string of disasters like that across the country. a string of oil train apocalyptic crashes led the federal government to crackdown on things like oil train speed and beefed up standards for the tanker cars transporting the oil.