On February 4, they noticed water spillage into Sulphur Run and Leslie Run, and installed booms and underflow dams to separate the floating pollutant. Norfolk Southern personnel were first to respond on February 3. East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway declared a state of emergency. Nearly 70 emergency agencies from Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania mobilized in response. Emergency response and burn off The crash site on February 5 Air monitoring device Workers digging up a creek and filtering the water at the entrance to a park Cleanup of a small creek The crew received an alarm from a wayside defect detector shortly before the derailment indicating a mechanical problem, and then an emergency brake application initiated. List of derailed cars carrying high-hazard chemicals Line #Ībout 48 hours later, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released preliminary findings indicating that the derailment was caused by a mechanical problem on one of the railcars' trucks, which may be connected to reports that an axle was observed throwing sparks about an hour before. Of the 51 derailed cars, 11 of them were tank cars which dumped 100,000 gallons of hazardous materials, including vinyl chloride, benzene residue, and butyl acrylate. 49 of the cars ended up in a derailment pile, which caught fire and burned for several days. After this, at around 8:55 pm EST on February 3, 2023, 51 cars derailed on the east side of East Palestine, near the border with Pennsylvania. Security footage from a business in Salem, Ohio (20 miles northwest from East Palestine), and a Ring doorbell camera from New Waterford, Ohio (4 miles northwest from East Palestine), show fire emanating from underneath a rail car as it went by on the tracks. Derailment Smoke from the accident, on February 3 Video of smoke and fire The train departed Madison on February 1, and had suffered at least one mechanical failure before the derailment. Of those cars, 20 were carrying hazardous materials, including chloroethene (vinyl chloride), butyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, isobutylene, combustible liquids, and benzene residue. Other reports note one more car, for a total of 151 cars, weighing 18,000 tons. The train consisted of 141 loaded cars and 9 empty cars. Aboard the 9,300-foot-long (1.76 mi 2.8 km) train were an engineer, conductor, and conductor trainee. Louis yard in Madison, Illinois, to Norfolk Southern's Conway Yard in Conway, Pennsylvania, on the Fort Wayne Line. The derailed train was Norfolk Southern train 32N operating from the Terminal Railroad Association of St. As a result, residents within a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) radius were evacuated, and an emergency response was initiated from agencies in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia. Several railcars burned for more than two days, with emergency crews then conducting a controlled burn of several railcars which released hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the air. EST ( UTC−5), when 38 cars of a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, United States.
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