the ground and into the water, josh shapiro, the governor of pennsylvania, held a press conferences about it. shapiro announced that authorities had decided to set thoso announ e chemicals on fire. goo and that was a very good thing.e no one should be unduly alarmed . the burning ohemicaf theslse chemicals, shapiro said, had gone, quote,e, as planned. whil, officials on the scene, meanwhile, declared the burn dquote, perfect.ohio a gr mike dewine, the governor f ohio, agreed with all of this. the people in charge, the railroads, engineers and the state official engineesd overseeing them had everythinger under control. so two days later,tw evacuation orders for residents were officially lifted, both in east palestine over the border in pennsylvania. iorders were link subsequent days, a lot of people have wondered out loud, was it really a wisewondered den to light thousands of gallons of vinyl chloride on fire, releasing a world war one era bioweapon into the air over
the incomplete combustion products of everything that was there. stuff, if you looked at the guy s video stuff precipitating down into people s property,n there s a lot of questions. u know, the answers cameions slow. and , you know, first youcame get well, now we found vinylides chlorides in the water. well, yeah t, no joke. you re going to find that, youie know, and it seemed likef everything was drips and dribbles instead o, one f. i one of the things i learned i is you tell the truth, you tell it all, you tell it first., fell i and you tell thet m how you re w going to solve the problem. and none of thatyou wasreoblem, forthcoming. and i began to worry about, you know, what the end result this is going to be. they had evacuated one milebettr and i was telling the media they better do like one and a half, two miles. well, subsequently, after that, they went to two miles and then within a few minutes, they weree br bringing in a few days oinrthatw bringing everybodyas back . and t