The National Transportation Safety Board will host the second half of a two-day hearing into the freight train derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio. Follow along for updates here:
The East Palestine fire chief told investigators probing a Norfolk Southern derailment that the railroad gave him 13 minutes to decide whether to vent and burn carloads of hazardous vinyl chloride — a timeline he said left him feeling “blindsided.” The decision would change a serious derailment in early February into a national event that became the backdrop for weeks of culture war battles.
The emergency response faced trouble almost immediately, according to the records and testimony. Faulty modeling misled the governor of Ohio about the risks of venting and burning the vinyl chloride. New accounts from experts at chemical company Oxy Vinyls, which was shipping the vinyl chloride, call into question the decision to vent the gas.
The on-scene hearing is the first since the NTSB sent representatives to Alaska as part of a plane crash investigation six years ago and is a rare chance for the public to observe the NTSB’s investigators at work.
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