After 12:20 p.m., Greenville police and fire were called to the intersection of State Route 571 near SR 49 and the Shell gas station on reports of a train derailment.
A train derailment Saturday morning sent multiple tanker cars carrying hazardous materials into the Yellowstone River. The post Train derailment sends tanker cars into Yellowstone River appeared first on FreightWaves.
deal with it. we heard from northern southern, and the two contractors hired to clean it up, and what went into the decision to do this control release and burn and they looked at the temperature readings that they felt were going up, and the valves for pressure on the tankers may have malfunctioned, and they were worried about the extreme heat around these tanker cars and the explosive reaction that could occur if they didn t try to take care of this in this way. the fire department chief in east palestine ultimately took responsibility for the calls here, but he had 13 minutes to make a final decision about what to do, but we heard some evidence that maybe the signs were misinterpreted and the explosive reaction was not about to happen inside of the tankers and maybe it was not necessary. the explosive experts said that even with this information it may not have changed the way they took care of things, because they were not sure what
on the radar this hour, the ntsb is holding a hearing on the toxic train derailment and spill in palestine, ohio. they are going to produce multiple witness as they are trying to determine how that happened and how to handle the disaster of that derailment in february. they found that a wheel bearing happened moments before the 38 cars derailed including the tanker cars that were carrying hazardous material that ignited into a toxic plume. a person has been sentenced to four years for holding classified documents and after having a top clearance, she
the situation in east palestine from a little over a month ago. we were just certain that there were only four tanker cars that were involved, and they were all empty at that time. there is residual in there, but very minor amounts. after the research, they did a recon of the site, found nothing that spilled on to the ground, and nothing very minimal material on the actual cars themselves, that actually dried very quickly. there is no spillage on to the ground or into the water ways at this time. now certainly, official there in clark county recognize that even though this wasn t toxic disaster that east palestine experienced, there are some very serious questions that have to be answered in terms of the investigation. this train was transporting hazardous materials, so it could have been worse. and those questions that were posed by the head of the national transportation safety board, jim, about what the industry is doing to prevent the