Train derailments and explosions and chemical spills

5 killed in Arkansas plane crash while en route to scene of a fatal explosion at Ohio factory

Five people who worked for an environmental response consulting firm were killed in a plane crash Wednesday in Little Rock, Arkansas, while on their way to a metal factory explosion site in Ohio, officials said.

The plane was carrying employees of the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health when it took off from Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock around noon Wednesday, according to the firm and the Federal Aviation Administration...
CTEH is a consulting firm that provides responsive services, including environmental data collection and management, incident management, industrial hygiene, safety, toxicology and human health consulting for public and private sectors, the company said.

Too suspicious!!!!....
 
Update:

BREAKING: Researchers Release ALARMING Finding About Lasting Health Effects For East Palestine Residents From Hazardous Chemicals
On Friday, a group of researchers from Texas A&M University Carnegie Mellon announced that they have detected that several chemicals carried aboard the Norfolk Southern train that derailed on February 3rd are at a higher-than-normal level in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio.

According to the researchers, nine of the 50 chemicals carried aboard the train are at levels that could bring health consequences to residents. They noted in particular the chemical Acrolein

According to the CDC, Acrolein “is highly toxic via all routes and is severely irritating to the eyes, mucous membranes, respiratory tract, and skin. Acrolein is highly flammable, can form explosive mixtures with air, and burns to produce irritating, corrosive, and/or toxic gases.”

Other chemicals that are at higher than normal rates include Trichloroethane, Butadiene, Naphthalene, Trichloroethylene, and Vinyl Chloride.
While the researchers found that these chemicals are at higher than normal levels, they noted that Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylenes, which are typical of the petroleum industry and are known carcinogens, are at “normal” levels.

The researchers noted that they are continuing to conduct tests and monitor the air for other chemicals that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not monitoring as well as locations where the EPA has failed to monitor, as reported by the Daily Wire.

According to the EPA, they “deployed mobile detection equipment and stationary equipment to conduct air monitoring in the East Palestine community. U.S. EPA collected field measurements for lower explosive limits (LEL), total volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hydrogen sulfide, benzene, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen chloride, phosgene, and particulate matter. Air monitoring locations were selected: at the schools, residential areas, several government buildings, upwind of the derailment area, in the derailment area, and downwind of the derailment area as well as mobile teams to collect general readings throughout the community.”


“U.S. EPA is collecting outdoor air samples for VOCs (target contaminates of concern list and tentatively identified compounds), including vinyl chloride, n-butyl acrylate, and ethyhexyl acrylate,” the agency continued. “Air sampling locations were selected upwind of the train derailment area, work area, and downwind areas.”
As residents continue to see the impact of contaminated water and air on their local environment, the federal government is still saying that it is safe to stay in their community despite the findings of the A&M researchers and a recent report by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources that found that tens of thousands of animals have died as a result of the chemical burn off, as previously reported by the DC Enquirer.

According to the report, the number of wildlife killed by the release of chemicals is over 43,000.
“The final sample count of aquatic species killed in waterways impacted in the area totaled 2,938. Of this collected sample, most – nearly 2,200 – were small minnows,” the report provided by Director Mary Mertz began.

“Based on this sample count, ODNR used a calculation endorsed by the American Fisheries Society to estimate the total number of minnows killed in the entire 5-mile span of the waterway from the derailment site to the point where Bull Creek flows into the north fork of Little Beaver Creek,” it continued. “Of the estimate, 38,222 were minnows, ranging in size between 1 and 3 inches.”
“ODNR also estimated the total number of other aquatic life killed as a result of the derailment, including small fish, crayfish, amphibians, and macroinvertebrates,” the Ohio Department of Natural Resources explained. “This number is approximately 5,500.”

According to the ODNR, none of the species that were impacted were endangered and the impact occurred within the first 24 hours following the train derailment and subsequent burning of chemicals in the first week of February.

Back when the ODRN first collected samples of local waterways, they estimated that only 3,500 aquatic animals had died as a result of the chemical contamination, as reported by Axios.
 
An explosion was reported at the Pemex Storage Center in Ixhuatlán, Veracruz.

Users on social networks reported an explosion at the crude oil storage center of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), known as Tuzandepetl, located in Ixhuatlán del Sureste, Veracruz, the column of smoke reached several kilometers high. Hours earlier there was a fire at the Lázaro Cárdenas refinery in Minatitlán.

Different videos have begun to circulate, showing the column of smoke left by the explosion at the Storage Center, the official figure offered by Pemex indicates that three people were injured, while another five are missing. Authorities of the entity have begun to evacuate the Technological University of Southeast Veracruz, which is located a few 2 kilometers from the explosion site.

At noon on Thursday, February 23, Pemex workers reported a fire inside the facilities of the Lázaro Cárdenas del Rio refinery, located in Minatitlán, also in Veracruz, at least five people were reported injured with first and second degree burns.

 
Teams from the QBN 601 Engineer Company of the
@Ejercito_Arg work, in coordination with local authorities, in the decontamination in the area of #Ituzaingó, after the spill of toxic substances produced by the accident truck on the Acceso Oeste highway.



According to what sources of the Police of the province of Buenos Aires told Infobae, the toxic substance spilled on the highway could be Cletodim, a powerful fertilizer, although this version could not be confirmed for the moment.

"The first thing to say is that the situation is under control. The truck caught fire, that caused all the material it was transporting to be consumed and that ended up dissipating in the air. There is still some smoke in the air, obviously", said Fabián García, member of the Buenos Aires Civil Defense, in an interview with TN.
 
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This is what will be done with the collected waste water from East Palestine

The private company specializes in deep well injection, which allows them to inject the hazardous waste thousands of feet into the ground for disposal.

Guillen, who also serves as a biology and environmental science professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, said that is a common practice, and there should be minimal health risks to Deer Park residents.


"This injection, in some cases, is usually 4,000 or 5,000 feet down below any kind of drinking water aquifer," he said. "Could it come up some day? Yes, maybe, but hundreds of years from now or thousands of years from now."

Guillen said the risk lies in the transport of the chemicals for more than 1,300 miles from East Palestine to Deer Park.

 
This is what will be done with the collected waste water from East Palestine



FROM THE ARTICLE:
"DEER PARK, Texas (KTRK) -- As clean up continues from the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, a private company in the Houston area has agreed to store and dispose the toxic liquids.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) told ABC13 in an email that Texas Molecular in Deer Park is receiving the liquid waste for storage and disposal.

"TM Deer Park is authorized to accept and manage a variety of waste streams, including vinyl chloride, as part of their RCRA hazardous waste permit and underground injection control permit," a spokesperson for the agency said."


Well, I guess New Jersey and Pennsylvania can't handle any more toxic waste dumped in their land...the NE states are all heavily polluted with the Goverment's Superfund dumps.

One of the other dangers of taking it to Texas is transporting toxic substances over a long distance...hope it makes the trip without accident.

I haven't had a pc in a number of years, so if any of you want to post a more visual posting, full of maps where these dumps are, go at it; I'll give you a couple of sites to start with. The article and maps are from 2017:


VARIOUS MAPS HERE:
 
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The car that set off the wreck contained plastic pellets, which contributed to the fire that broke out.
An article I read subsequent to the previous one indicated that the wheel bearing that was 254 degrees above normal temperature is what set the plastic pellets on fire that then spread to the tanker cars with VC. Meanwhile, over at Natural News, Sherri Tenpenny and Tom Renz are featured in a couple of articles:

Dr. Stephen Soloway: Federal government covering up East Palestine toxic train disaster – Brighteon.TV

Tom Renz: East Palestine train derailment and toxic chemical spill an “environmental catastrophe” – Brighteon.TV


From the first article, Sherri Tenpenny expresses the following:
Thus, she called for the evacuation of people living within a 100- to 200-mile radius around the disaster site.

That would include Columbus and Cleveland, OH, and Pittsburg, PA, and lets pretend only those three major cities. Where exactly would the population go and how about people in hospitals and nursing/assisted living facilities? And if you've ever tried to leave a town under evacuation due to an approaching hurricane, one gets mired in major gridlock upon the designated exit highways as depicted in the movie Deep Impact. It would seem finding nutritional type solutions to being exposed to the toxins would be the best approach as evacuation doesn't seem the least bit feasible to me. Of course, first one has to get an honest assessment regarding the chemicals and the disbursement into the environment. Was the water being sent to Texas for underground injection tested and the results made public? Well, we know honesty isn't practiced by government officials be they politicians or health bureaucrats.
 
According to this tweet -
- rail car 23 contained polypropylene - previously identified as plastic pellets.

Polypropylene is one of the most commonly produced plastics in the world; the major end users of polypropylene are the packaging industry.

Polypropylene is classified as a “thermoplastic” (as opposed to “thermoset”) material which has to do with the way the plastic responds to heat. Thermoplastic materials become liquid at their melting point (roughly 130 degrees Celsius in the case of polypropylene). [130 C = 266 F]

A major useful attribute about thermoplastics is that they can be heated to their melting point, cooled, and reheated again without significant degradation. Instead of burning, thermoplastics like polypropylene liquefy, which allows them to be easily injection molded and then subsequently recycled.

Disadvantages of polypropylene:
  • It has a high thermal expansion coefficient which limits its high temperature applications.
  • It is susceptible to UV degradation • It has poor resistance to chlorinated solvents and aromatics.
  • It is known to be difficult to paint as it has poor bonding properties.
  • It has a high flammability.

Hmm - so I guess it was a great choice for rail car 23 and its defective wheel bearing! :evil:
 
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There's a CNN vid with an interview of an East Palestine resident @:24 saying, "it took Norfolk Southern 3 or 4 days to get us a partial list . . . vinyl chloride, [...] and combustible liquids . . . what the hell are combustible liquids? You know, it could be anything."

Well, now we know - liquified polypropylene pellets conveniently heated by a defective wheel bearing that was 253 degrees Fahrenheit above the ambient temperature. It was approximately 62 F at 9 pm when the train derailed in East Palestine on Feb. 3.

Note in the CNN vid beginning @1:41, it's stated the train traveled an average of 49 miles per hour, but for unknown reasons, it slowed to 29 miles per hour between Salem and East Palestine. Conspiracy theorists say - the better to allow time for the defective wheel bearing to heat up sufficiently to cause the highly flammable polypropylene pellets to reach 266 F, liquify, and then to catch fire from the flaming axle as the car derailed. This initial fire subsequently spread to the other 37 cars that derailed, 11 of which were carrying hazardous materials including 5 holding 115,580 gallons of vinyl chloride. Since the plastic pellets were solid, they were not in a tanker car like the liquid vinyl chloride. They became liquid once the pellets reached 266 F and then spilled/caught fire with the derailment.

From the NTSB report:
A total of 38 train cars derailed in East Palestine, near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. They included "11 tank cars carrying hazardous materials that subsequently ignited, fueling fires" that damaged a dozen cars that didn't derail, the NTSB said in a preliminary report Thursday.

Five of those derailed train cars were carrying 115,580 gallons of vinyl chloride, according to the report. Vinyl chloride can increase the risk of cancer and is highly flammable.

Those five cars "continued to concern authorities because the temperature inside one tank car was still rising," indicating a polymerization reaction which could result in an explosion, the report said. To help prevent a deadly explosion of vinyl chloride, crews released the toxic chemical into a trench and burned it off three days after the derailment.
The engineer was already braking to slow down behind another train. So when the alarm sounded, he responded "immediately" and increased the brake application, Homendy said.

"During this deceleration, the wheel bearing failed," she said. "Car 23 derailed, and the train initiated an emergency brake application and came to a stop."
The train slowed dramatically after the first signs of the potential wheel bearing overheat appeared on surveillance video -- about 21 miles before it derailed, according to a new CNN analysis of surveillance video and Department of Transportation documents.

The train had been traveling at an average speed of 49 miles per hour between Alliance, Ohio, and Salem, Ohio -- but then slowed down to nearly half that speed between Salem and East Palestine.

CNN calculated the train's average speed by using surveillance video time stamps that showed the train's positions at specific points on the track.

The slowdown was well below the "typical speed range" for a train traveling along that stretch of track, according to documents filed in 2020 with the Federal Railroad Administration.

It's unclear what prompted that dramatic slowdown. CNN reached out to Norfolk Southern but did not immediately receive a response.
 
If chemicals don't get to the people than this definitely will , citylimits article.


Good find, this is quite the article. It's kinda like these natural disasters get internalized into the bodies/psyches of unborn babies and infants. Then as they grow up, that natural disaster (or 4D battle) continues to carry on inside them! I'd never thought trauma that way before.
 

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