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'We basically nuked a town': Animals dying in Ohio after train derailment and controlled release of toxic chemicals | Blaze Media
The freight train that derailed Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio, may not have exploded outright as some had feared, but it still managed to expel various toxic chemicals. While officials have suggested that the deadly chemicals in the smoke that darkened the sky over the village do not pose a...
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A recent train derailment caused massive amounts of toxic substances to help destroy a town in Ohio. The EPA initially told people to evacuate, but then told them they could return in a week. Problem is, residents began to see animals around them drop dead, even though the EPA told them it was safe to return. But it gets worse, they apparently had a controlled release of some of the deadly toxins to help avoid a bigger explosion. However, Silverado Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist "We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open."
Ohio state officials at the Tuesday afternoon press conference said they were not concerned about anecdotal reports of residents developing symptoms like headaches, sore throats and rashes, while discounting reports of dead livestock.
Dr. Bruce T. Vanderhoff, director of the Ohio Department of Health, said that while it was possible that residents were smelling some of the chemicals at low levels and experiencing common symptoms, “air sampling in that area really is not pointing toward an air source for this.”
“Everything that we've gathered thus far is really pointing toward very low measurements, if at all,” Vanderhoff said. “And what I would encourage people who are having those symptoms to do is No. 1: Contact your medical provider. And No. 2: Call the local hotline to let them know that you're experiencing this. So a team can get out and check their environment.”
So where is Pete Buttigieg?
Pete Buttigieg makes cringey spy balloon joke, stays silent on Ohio train derailment
“We’ve faced issues from container shipping to airline cancellations … Now we got balloons,” Buttigieg joked, eliciting laughter and a few groans from the audience.
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg copped bipartisan heat Monday when he failed to address the catastrophic Ohio train derailment which released toxic chemicals into the air this month — but joked about Chinese spy balloons and moaned about a lack of diversity in the construction industry.
“It couldn’t be a more exciting time for transportation,” Buttigieg, 41, said in a remarks at the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference in Washington, DC, where he discussed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill signed by President Biden in 2021.
“It’s had its challenges. I mean, if you look at what the American transportation systems have faced in the last two or three years partly because of the pandemic, we’ve faced issues from container shipping to airline cancellations … Now we got balloons,” the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, awkwardly joked.
But the one-time presidential candidate’s cringey attempt at humor went down like a lead balloon.
“Nobody thinks this is funny,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) raged in a tweet Monday, sharing a video of the Cabinet member’s quip.
Hawley has called for an investigation into what he calls the Biden administration’s “baffling response” to a Chinese spy balloon that floated over the US two weeks ago.
“He jokes about balloons while ignoring East Palestine, OH. We deserve better than this,” former Ohio state senator and democrat Nina Turner also fumed in a tweet.
I have other sources of income and I would just start looking for a job up north. Everybody's hiring so what the fuck.
