The ecological fallout from the derailment of a freight train carrying toxic materials in rural Ohio is still being determined ten days after the disaster. One resident in the town of North Lima, around ten miles from the train derailment, reported that her six chickens died in the days after the fire. Hazardous materials account for about 7-8 per cent of the 30 million shipments that railroads deliver across the country every year. “It raises all kinds of questions,” Ohio Governor Mike DeWine told Fox & Friends when he was asked whether hazardous materials are too dangerous to transport by rail. A 2005 derailment in Graniteville, South Carolina, left nine people dead and injured more than 250 after toxic chlorine gases were released.
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