According to the CDC, seven members of the 15-person Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry team became ill while in the Ohio town of East Palestine.
A fire, which Castro County Sheriff Sal Rivera said resulted from an explosion that spread to the building where the cows are housed, burned alive 18,000 cows in Texas.
Rescuers are searching for nine workers feared trapped after an explosion inside an underground facility at a hydroelectric dam in Srisailam, Telangana. According to officials, 30 workers were at the plant in Srisailam when the blaze started, fifteen escaped...
According to officials, a 70-car train derailed in North Dakota, spilling hazardous materials.
Crews removed contaminated soil from the Swinomish Reservation in Skagit County where two locomotives derailed and spilled an estimated 3,100 gallons of diesel fuel on a berm near a bay just after midnight Thursday.
According to the Plains-Paradise Rural Fire District, a train carrying a large quantity of beer derailed in Paradise, Montana.
The world’s largest cylindrical aquarium exploded. A hundred firefighters were dispatched to the area, and the cause is now being looked into.
Pam Kline welcomed me through the front door of her home in East Palestine, Ohio, on a wet afternoon when we did not know if it was safe to be in the rain. About a week prior to our meeting, a train derailed in this small slice of the heartland, releasing toxic chemicals into the soil and sky. The house is a well-kept American Foursquare with an enclosed porch filled by the leathery smell of tobacco. She apologized for the odor as I entered the living room where her husband, Lenny, and a friendly Australian shepherd awaited. I told her the smell was pleasant. Even amid a crisis, the Klines were warm and kind.
A British Airways pilot collapsed and died shortly before he was due to captain a packed jet.
