Fiery train derailment in East Palestine, OH, leads to forced evacuation

By artappraiser on Mon, 02/06/2023 - 5:18pm |

A state of emergency has been issued to residents in East Palestine, Ohio, following a 50 car train derailment that led to massive fire with officials urging residents to evacuate. @lipoftv reports on the state of emergency. https://t.co/EQI7BcLTlB pic.twitter.com/L53hIdnhFQ
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) February 6, 2023

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/evacuations-urged-ohio-town-train-wreck-smolders-96906707

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Northeastern Ohio: “A train with more than 100 cars derailed in East Palestine, about 15 miles south of Youngstown. There were 20 cars with hazardous material in the train - 10 of which derailed. Of those 10, five were carrying vinyl chloride, the NTSB said.”

-> wow, apocalyptic pic.twitter.com/wz1e0ovAwl
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) February 5, 2023

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio are under a mandatory evacuation order after a freight train derailment caused a massive fire.

Officials say those who do not evacuate could be arrested, adding that shrapnel from any explosion could reach as far as one mile from the crash site. pic.twitter.com/S7C8DkeTqJ
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) February 6, 2023

Governor DeWine and I are asking residents in the red area of this map — those within a one mile radius of East Palestine — to evacuate immediately. pic.twitter.com/r6V1OmazHm
— Governor Josh Shapiro (@GovernorShapiro) February 6, 2023

by artappraiser on Mon, 02/06/2023 - 5:24pm

The Ohio River is now testing positive for toxic chemicals (Albeit low levels, for now.) from the East Palestine train derailment.

The Ohio River feeds many rivers and water supplies across several stateshttps://t.co/sSDiapZAwf
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) February 13, 2023

by artappraiser on Tue, 02/14/2023 - 5:40am

Donald Trump did this:
After rail industry donors delivered more than $6 million to GOP campaigns in 2017, Trump Administration, backed by rail lobbyists & Senate Republicans, rescinded an Obama Adm rule aimed at making Civil War-era braking systems safer. https://t.co/1RWo2MvJie pic.twitter.com/Z4Fjye8spo
— Dave Talltree, son of Wymo. Leilani is the ʻīlio. (@unsc1325) February 15, 2023

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/15/2023 - 5:06pm

Cannot make this up. Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and other Republicans just sent a letter to Pete Buttigieg attacking him for the train derailment without knowing that the train oversight board… isn’t part of his department. pic.twitter.com/ZU9UeygeUh
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) February 24, 2023

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/24/2023 - 7:01pm

As republicans try to attack "Mayor Pete" and his Press Secretary in East Palestine, Ohio today, I've been looking up the Train regulations and Rules that Trump scrapped as president. Here they are:

- Trump gave the "ok" for Liquid Natural Gas to be transported by rail… https://t.co/k4cvYGfEzg
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) February 23, 2023

that said (and do check out the full longer tweet), this is also true:

Not a good sign for Mayor Pete when even Colbert is doing this. pic.twitter.com/Q2nWts78Wj
— Tukarrs (@Tukarrs) February 24, 2023

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/24/2023 - 7:17pm

from Fortune Magazine!

'We all knew it was going to happen': Railroad workers and unions say years of cost-cutting and safety pushback created the Ohio train disaster https://t.co/VCvlwqnvdq
— J. W. (@wolfjon4) February 25, 2023

I would imagine the anti-monopoly meme inherent attracted the editor:

[....] The railroad industry has become concentrated among a small number of companies in recent years. Including Norfolk Southern, there are seven Class One railroad companies in the U.S., down from 33 in 1980. Critics including unions, senior politicians, and legal experts say the consolidation has led to less competition and accountability for the industry’s big players, while warning that the industry’s nature raises the risk of more accidents.

“We all knew it was going to happen,” Christenson said about the Ohio derailment. “They really need to look at how this monopoly crowds people out. Everyone in America is being held hostage by a handful of railroads.”

by artappraiser on Sat, 02/25/2023 - 4:46pm

Federal officials are pausing the removal of toxic waste from East Palestine until the EPA approves its transportation to authorized locations https://t.co/tsnrZjpjKG
— Heal the Planet (@fwtoney) February 26, 2023

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/26/2023 - 5:33pm

OK Jordan,
You've done your daily ass kissing of your master Trump.
Now read the TRUTH.
(Fortune Magazine is far from liberal) pic.twitter.com/G3jWzp7AnZ
— RuleofLaw (@ExInfantryGrunt) February 23, 2023

by artappraiser on Mon, 02/27/2023 - 4:00am

Interesting new ABC News piece on how the bipartisan pressure on @SecretaryPete has become super intense, and the Democratic pressure is coming from different wings of the party...https://t.co/6pOBztlsC4 pic.twitter.com/y6cHp8akX6
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) February 17, 2023

by artappraiser on Mon, 02/27/2023 - 5:34am

NBC News confirms: At President Biden's direction, federal agencies have been going around door to door in East Palestine to check in on each family personally. @MSNBC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2023

by artappraiser on Tue, 02/28/2023 - 2:05am

Following the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, some people online said train derailments are more common than we think. Here’s what the data shows. https://t.co/j90ymU5RU7
— VERIFY (@VerifyThis) March 3, 2023

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/05/2023 - 10:53pm

Fiery train derailment in East Palestine, OH, leads to forced evacuation

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