Hasnain says:

I fear that, like the 9/11 cleanup, we’ll find out decades later that the controlled burn was the wrong choice and many people will get unexplained illnesses. Most of the fish have died, a lot of pets are dead, people are somehow still being asked to return home and the fires have now spread the gas (extremely toxic) to a 100+ mile radius.

If only the train companies / government had listened to the unions and actually followed safety protocols (and taken a longer route) instead of being cheap, this could have been avoided. Sigh.

“Residents told the local news they “fear[ed] for their lives.” One said that even indoors, “You could smell it and taste it, and I had a headache.” Meanwhile, the crash site was leaching other hazardous materials besides vinyl chloride. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says they seeped into surrounding waterways, and “were immediately toxic to fish”—though it added that “actions were taken to minimize that.” The agency has assured the public that, the poor aquatic life’s fate notwithstanding, everybody’s drinking water was “protected.””

Posted on 2023-02-12T16:28:50+0000