Derailment of a freight train carrying chemicals in Pennsylvania, USA

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Pennsylvania police announced that due to the derailment of a cargo train carrying diesel fuel and polypropylene plastic pellets in the east of this state, its cargo flowed into the Lehigh River.

The police department announced in a statement that the Norfolk Southern train derailed but So far, there have been no reports of possible injuries to the train workers, nor have there been any orders to evacuate the area due to the environmental threat caused by the chemical spill into the river.

According to this statement, rescue and rescue forces were sent to the scene of the accident to control the oil spill and prevent the rapid spread of this chemical in the river. .

The officials of this company announced that they are investigating the cause of this The accident will begin and the company’s relief forces and contractors will be continuously present in the next few days to clean up the accident site.

However, early last year, another train of the same company derailed in the village of East Palestine in the state of Ohio, and a huge explosion occurred, and black smoke covered the entire area and thousands of people were killed. Tens of residents of the area were forced to evacuate their homes.

According to this report, about 50 wagons of this freight train, which was carrying various cargoes from Madison, Illinois, Conway and Pennsylvania, derailed in this village and then exploded, and huge smoke and fire covered the area. .

Following this incident, the local authorities ordered the evacuation of houses near the accident site and opened the doors of schools and social centers as temporary shelters, and this group of residents went to these centers.

a little later A freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed and caught fire in the US state of Maine and resulted in the injury of three railway employees in the region, a total of 3 locomotives and 6 wagons carrying timber and electric wires. They caught fire in a derailed forest area in the state of Maine.

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