Officials released and burned chemicals from wreckage of derailed train in East Palestine near Pennsylvania border
Photograph: Dustin Franz/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Dustin Franz/AFP/Getty ImagesIt is unclear when evacuated residents might be able to return home to the area where officialsfrom the wreckage of a derailed train, the Ohio governor, Mike DeWine, said on Tuesday.
Residents just outside the evacuation zone in East Palestine and in neighboring Beaver county, Pennsylvania, were urged to stay indoors as a precaution. Doing the release during the daytime allowed the fumes to disperse more quickly and prevented the rail cars from exploding and sending shrapnel and other debris flying through the neighborhood, said Scott Deutsch, of rail operator Norfolk Southern Railway.The process involves using a small charge to blow a hole in the cars, allowing the material to go into a trench and burning it off before it is released in the air, he said.
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