Derailed Ethanol Cars Explode in Ohio
Rails cars filled with ethanol fuel continued to burn nearly a day after a freight train derailment in Ohio sent them careening off the tracks into a fiery heap. It may be days before the train's owner, Norfolk Southern, is able to extinguish the fires in all of the ethanol cars. No injuries were reported but precautionary evacuations took place for residents within a mile and a half of the blaze.
All of the 62 cars in the train were carrying ethanol, although not all of them exploded. Local volunteer firefighters found themselves ill-equipped to handle the massive blaze, and could only watch the cars burn. The cause of the derailment is still unknown and remains under investigation. Other rail traffic was being rerouted while workers continued to remove debris from the tracks.