Breaking: Ohio Suffers Ecological Disaster After Train Cars Carrying Toxic Chemicals Derails And Explodes100percentfedup.com
A brewing ecological disaster in Ohio has been kept largely quiet. A train carrying toxic chemicals, including polyvinyl chloride, was derailed on February 3 and then exploded in East Palestine, Ohio. “A Norfolk Southern train with 150 cars derailed near the Ohio town of East Palestine, with 20 of the cars carrying hazardous materials. The derailment caused a huge fire and, fearing a massive explosion releasing noxious gases and shrapnel into the surrounding area. Emergency responders intentionally breached five cars to let out the chemicals inside,” according to Newsweek. “Environmental regulators have been monitoring the air and drinking water around the site of the derailment, and have so far said both remain unaffected by the spill.”
Residents of East Palestine have been allowed to return home. Chemicals were observed in the atmosphere following the explosion, but regulators said the levels were safe. Yet residents have complained about pets dying in, which they suspect chemical exposure is to blame. They have also complained about experiencing headaches and nausea.
Investigative journalist Laura Loomer tweeted,
“A massive Lethal Ecological Disaster recently occurred in East Palestine Ohio. A train that was carrying 20 TRAINS of hazardous polyvinyl chloride and other toxic chemicals derailed and exploded. Police are arresting reporters who are reporting on the story. Water is contaminated.”
Combat veteran and New York Times best-selling author Sean Parnell tweeted,
“We live 45 minutes from this horrific disaster and our local media has done a decent job covering it but there has been precious little information beyond the official statements from the rail way, which are just regurgitated by the government. Not good.”
He also demanded answers, “I want more clarity on this disaster in East Palestine, Ohio. The people of Western Pennsylvania deserve to know if their water is contaminated and the air is poison. We need answers, like yesterday.”
Parnell posted a photo on his instagram and said “This happened 70 miles from Western PA, in Ohio. It may be one of the largest ecological and environmental disasters ever.
Carcinogenic chemicals burned, and now in the air. Maybe water. This stuff is poison. Dead fish and animals found miles away. At least one journalist was arrested for trying to report on this. I have not seen a single national media story about this, but it should be on the front page of every single paper. We should all be calling our Representatives NOW to demand clarity and answers.”
TYLER DURDEN
While the US government is dispensing millions of dollars in resources to treat balloons as an existential crisis, a small town in Ohio finds itself engulfed in what actually looks like the apocalypse. Perhaps by design, all of the drama surrounding violations of US airspace by Chinese spy initiatives has done well to keep what is becoming one of the worst environmental disasters in recent memory from getting any headlines.
The chaos began early last week when a train of more than 100 cars derailed in East Palestine, Ohio near the state’s border with Pennsylvania with roughly 5,000 residents. The accident launched fifty of those hundred freight cars from the tracks. Twenty of the freight cars on the train were carrying hazardous materials, ten of which were detailed. While the accident had no fatalities, of those ten cars, five contained pressurized vinyl chloride, a highly flammable carcinogenic gas.
In order to address the volatile scenario around the crash site, the Ohio Emergency Management Agency executed its plan of venting the toxic gas with a controlled burn in order to evade an uncontrolled explosion which presented the risk of catastrophic damage. “Within the last two hours, a drastic temperature change has taken place in a rail car, and there is now the potential of a catastrophic tanker failure which could cause an explosion with the potential of deadly shrapnel traveling up to a mile,” Gov. Mike DeWine warned in statement explaining the decision to take action to avert widespread devastation.
However, that operation sent large plumes of smoke containing vinyl chloride, phosgene, hydrogen chloride, and other gases into the air as the flames from the controlled burn raged on for days. Phosgene in particular is a highly toxic gas that can cause vomiting and respiratory trouble. The toxicity of phosgene gas is so potent that it was previously used as a chemical weapon during the First World War.
The hazardous airborne chemicals prompted officials to issue mandatory evacuation and shelter-in-place orders within a one-mile radius of where the train derailed. Those orders forced nearly 2,000 residents of East Palestine out of there homes. Despite the public safety risk in proximity to the crash site, over 500 people within the parameters of the evacuation order refused to leave their homes. However, those orders were lifted on February 8th, allowing residents to return to the area adjacent to the disaster.
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