Fear and mistrust still grip many in the village of 4,700 whipsawed by government assurances that the air and water are safe.
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Heather Bable speaks rapidly, recalling the terror of the night when a train loaded with hazardous chemicals derailed Feb. 3 less than a half-mile from her home in East Palestine, Ohio. She heard an earthshaking boom and, from her bathroom window,"all you saw was the flames."
People are also reading… And constant fear — to breathe the air, drink the water, let her 8-year-old son play outdoors. Fear and mistrust still grip many in the village of 4,700 whipsawed by government assurances that the air and water are safe; warnings from activists like Erin Brockovich about coverups and danger for years to come; and misinformation on social media.
"That railroad company should buy all these houses, tear them down — get families that's got kids first, get the elderly ones out, and then work with everybody else," Bable says."Because I still say this stuff is going to cause cancer." Most readings fell below minimum-risk levels for people exposed less than a year. But acrolein levels were high enough in some places to raise long-term health concerns, said Albert Presto, a Carnegie Mellon mechanical engineering research professor.
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