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A firefighter works as a derailed train carrying crude oil burns on Dec. 22 in Custer, Washington. Credit: David Ryder / Getty Images The train is on fire : tense moments after an oil train derailed By
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The day started like many others in Washington state, with a long line of tanker cars carrying crude oil to a refinery on the shores of Puget Sound.
Western Washingtonâs five oil refineries make the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel that keep the Northwest moving.
As the sun came up Dec. 22, a mile-long train full of oil was heading to the Phillips 66 refinery north of Bellingham after a winding journey from the drilling fields of North Dakota. It had passed Spokane and the Tri-Cities, then rumbled down the Columbia River Gorge, beneath downtown Seattle and up the coastline of Puget Sound.