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Mississauga train derailment (1979), a CP Rail freight train derailed, releasing hazardous chemicals; Nemadji River train derailment (1992), a Burlington Northern freight train derailed, releasing nearly 22,000 gallons of liquid benzene into the Nemadji River and toxic emissions into the air, resulting in the largest evacuation in U.S. history ...
This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk and Southern freight train that derailed Friday night in East Palestine, Ohio are still on fire at mid-day Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023.
A small town in eastern Ohio has been rocked by a train derailment that spilled a number of ... By 8 February residents were told they could return to their homes following a mandatory evacuation ...
A train derailment and resulting large fire prompted an evacuation order and a declaration of a state of emergency in an Ohio village near the Pennsylvania state line on Friday night, covering the ...
The Associated Press reported that in a few hours 25,000 to 40,000 people evacuated from the vicinity in a second evacuation, at that time, the largest evacuation in U.S. history from a train accident according to William E. Loftus, executive director of the Federal Railroad Administration.
The derailment resulted in a liquid benzene spill into the river. The fumes from the spill led to an evacuation of an estimated 80,000 residents from the town of Superior, the city of Superior and Duluth, Minnesota, apparently the largest evacuation in U.S. history resulting from a train accident. [1]
The three-member train crew received an alert about the mechanical defect “shortly before the derailment," Michael Graham, a board member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said Sunday.
In suits against Norfolk Southern, people who live near East Palestine allege they lost income due to evacuations and were exposed to cancer-causing chemicals.