The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will hold a hearing Tuesday to discuss what caused the Feb. 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
A federal official says those running towards a fire need to know the unique risks they face, so they can have the right gear and evacuate everyone in danger.OMAHA, Neb. — A new federal rule finalized Monday aims to ensure first responders can find out what hazardous chemicals are on a train almost immediately after a derailment so they can respond appropriately., firefighters risked their lives trying to extinguish a blaze without knowing the right way to respond.
Train crews have long carried lists of their cargo in the cabs of their locomotives, but in the middle of the chaos after a derailment those engineers and conductors, who might have moved their locomotives miles down the track, can't always be found right away. The six biggest railroads also make train cargo information immediately available through the chemical industry's hazardous materials hotlines in the U.S. and Canada known as the CHEMTREC and CANUTEC, emergency call centers.
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