The Ohio and Pennsylvania governors on Monday ordered residents living in a 1-mile by 2-mile area surrounding a 50-car train derailment to evacuate ahead of a controlled release of hazardous chemic…
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This article provides a map of where they anticipate the chemicals released this afternoon will flow. It is expected to affect a relatively small area of EP, and across the PA border. Individuals in the red zone are at risk of death from fume inhalation, with those in the orange zone at risk for severe burns or long-term lung damage. It reads as though officials will make 1 more pass through the households that have previously declined to evacuate prior to the controlled release. They estimate there are around 30 households within those dangerous zones; adults with responsibility of children found in that area are at risk of arrest for child abuse.
On Google maps, I see only a couple farms in the danger zone that look like they may have livestock/large animals.
MOO: there are people who seem, based on their comments on social media, to be refusing to leave their homes primarily
because it has been made mandatory to do so. I sincerely hope they change their minds in the next 45 minutes. May we all never be in the position to have to leave our homes, belongings, livestock, and livelihoods to save our lives.
ETA: the derailment occurred late Friday night; even though mandatory evacuation was not issued until yesterday (Sunday), IMO, there has been sufficient time and there are sufficient resources available willing to help residents evacuate. Households have been notified via knocks on their front doors. No one can claim they were unable to get out. Again, IMO.
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