Ohio train: Huge fire breaks out after derailment (video)

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Ohio train: Huge fire breaks out after derailment
Emergency crews arrived at the scene of a large fire caused by the derailment of a train in East Palestine, a village in the US state of Ohio. The local mayor announced a state of emergency, noting the train was carrying "hazardous materials"...
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Ohio officials to release toxic chemicals from derailed train to avert explosion
Authorities in Ohio say they plan to release toxic chemicals from five cars of a derailed train in Ohio to reduce the threat of an explosion. Governor Mike DeWine says a “controlled release” of vinyl chloride will take place on Monday at 3.30pm local time. Residents near the site have been ordered to evacuate. DeWine said residents need to leave the area because of the risk of death or serious injury... Norfolk Southern Railway said the controlled release during the daytime will allow the fumes to disperse more quickly and prevent the rail cars from exploding and sending shrapnel and other debris flying through the neighborhood... Federal investigators had announced on Sunday that a mechanical issue with a rail car axle caused the fiery derailment near the Pennsylvania state line on Friday night. Michael Graham, a board member of the NTSB, said at a news conference that the three-member train crew received an alert about the mechanical defect “shortly before the derailment” but said the board was still working to determine which rail car experienced the issue...
Ohio crews release toxic chemicals from derailed train
Crews are performing a controlled release of toxic chemicals from a derailed train in north-eastern Ohio, hours after ordering residents to evacuate the area or risk death. Officials are releasing vinyl chloride into the air from five derailed rail cars that are at risk of exploding...
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Ohio residents demand answers two weeks after toxic chemical train derailment
Train operator Northern Southern failed to appear at community meeting in East Palestine, citing concern for their staff’s safety following disaster...
Ohio train crash leaves small town in fear of toxic fallout
Anxious residents are still demanding answers 12 days after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in the small Ohio town of East Palestine. "It's pretty dramatic right now," said James Figley, who lives just blocks from the derailment site. "The whole town's in an uproar"...
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Rail workers highlight long-standing concerns about industry following Ohio derailment
The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio is putting the spotlight on an issue, railroad workers say they’ve been talking about for a while — bigger trains but not enough workers. Rail workers say the mantra in today’s world is to do more with less. They say across the country, the way rail systems operate right now is a danger to communities nationwide. Current and retired railroad workers alike are speaking out, putting a spotlight on a problem with the way the railroad system operates... “It’s very scary. We predicted stuff like this before. The precision-schedule railroading business model is a rush on car inspections. I mean, a car inspection used to be four, five minutes with a couple of carmen. Now they’re pushing for under 90 seconds per car"...
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‘This is their mess’: U.S. orders rail company to pay for Ohio train spill cleanup
The head of the U.S. government’s environmental agency said on Tuesday that rail operator Norfolk Southern must “pay for cleaning up the mess” created when a freight train derailment in Ohio released toxic chemicals into the environment. The comments by the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were echoed by President Joe Biden later on Tuesday. “This is their mess. They should clean it up,” Biden said on Twitter. The EPA also ordered that Norfolk Southern officials attend town meetings about the Feb. 3 spill in East Palestine, Ohio. Last week company officials boycotted a meeting, citing concerns for their personal safety, leaving residents angered...
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Crew tried to stop Ohio train after alert about wheel bearing, safety report finds
The crew of the freight train carrying dangerous chemicals that derailed in Ohio earlier this month received a warning about an overheating wheel bearing and tried to slow the train before it came off the tracks, according to an interim report released on Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The wheel bearing was heating up for several miles before reaching 253F hotter than the air temperature, investigators found, a dangerous level requiring a train to stop to prevent disaster. The train engineer put the brakes on and the automatic braking system activated, the report said. But the train still derailed and was engulfed in a huge fireball, near the town of East Palestine, on 3 February... The NTSB said the crew did not receive a critical warning about an overheated axle but an engineer stopped the train after receiving a “critical audible alarm message” and the crew then saw fire and smoke and alerted dispatch of a possible derailment, the report said. The axle investigators are focused on had been heating up as the train went down the tracks, but did not reach the threshold for stopping the train and inspecting it until just before the derailment, the report said. The train was going about 47mph (75km/h) at the time, just under the speed limit of 50mph, according to safety investigators...
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US safety board investigates rail firm Norfolk Southern after Ohio derailment
The National Transportation Safety Board will look into five significant accidents involving the operator since December 2021... it will take a broad look at the railroad’s safety culture...

Norfolk Southern... announced plans on Monday to improve the use of detectors placed along railroad tracks to spot overheating bearings and other problems in response to the derailment in Ohio last month. The NTSB has said the crew operating the train that derailed on 3 February outside East Palestine, Ohio, got a warning from such a detector but couldn’t stop the train before more than three dozen cars came off the tracks and caught fire...
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