East Palestine residents returned home following evacuations after a train hauling chemicals derailed in Ohio.
RELATED: Ohio train derailment prompts 'major explosion' warning
Evacuated residents can return to the Ohio village where crews burned toxic chemicals after a train derailed five days ago now that monitors show no dangerous levels in the air, authorities said Wednesday.
Around-the-clock testing inside and outside the evacuation zone around the village of East Palestine and a sliver of Pennsylvania showed the air had returned to normal levels that would have been seen before the derailment, said James Justice of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"Hundreds and hundreds of data points we've collected over the time show the air quality is safe," he said. Residents were ordered to evacuate when authorities decided on Monday to release and burn five tankers filled with vinyl chloride, sending hydrogen chloride and the toxic gas phosgene into the air.
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How could they let these people go back home wtf
Verdade
Where tf else are they gonna live, on the streets?
@NoctOG333 the land is ruined. Their homes are ruined. Forever chemicals are called that because they don’t go away:
Media reporting what Norfolk Southern wants reported, which is classic move during events like this. Norfolk dug a pit, breached the cars, and intentionally set the chemical on fire then buried the contaminates and put down new tracks before residents returned.
Environmental agencies found nothing!!!!!!!!😳
“They gave them the propaganda number”
They declared the drinking water supply was safe.
I wouldn’t blame anyone for boiling and filtering it just to be safe.
because everybody believes the gov.
Yo, you guys blew up the wrong Palestine
happens every time
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50,000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town.
Praying for those affected by this but I’d never go back!!
🤣Only in America. Over the next ten years health problems will arise and the denial by the chemical, insurance and train companies will happen. As per the norm.
Would have cost more to clean it up. Burn it
The authorities lied!
We need much looser regulations and tax cuts on ALL polluters!
On-call Safety Officer must have been sick.
The next Love Canal. Noticed that NOT one politician showed up for support. Another case of let the peasants die.
Vynel🤦🏼♀️ 😂🤣really think we’re that stupid
Distractions , fires , ufo’s , all while the Epistine list is about to come out and the Hunter Laptop details .
East Palestine is the new Chernobyl.
Get the hell out of there. Watch the movie Erin Brokovich. Learn to mobilize as a community. Take pictures and document everything. Don’t let your community become Love Canal. Love and prayers to those affected. Firefighters and first responders are incredibly brave humans out there, thank you for your service.
Government: why don’t people trust us?