Town evacuated after yet another derailment

[ZoWie]

A town has been evacuated after a train derailment caused a fire in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, CBS reports.

BNSF Railway said approximately 22 cars had derailed at around 01:00 local time.

No injuries have been reported but the train was carrying ethanol and corn syrup which has caused a fire to start.

Parts of the town of Raymond have been evacuated, with the sheriff's office advising against travel to the area due to the blaze.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65126508

[Libertas]

Need a major train derailment in the neighborhood of all gop house and senate members.

[Motor City]

Imagine being woke up at 1 am in 0 degree weather and told to leave right away. Some times peoples cars break down, sometimes they have nowhere to go sometimes they are elderly or in ill health. Much rather have less extreme wealth for the owners in exchange for the publics safety and security.

[bradman]

And in more Minnesota news...

Monticello Nuclear Plant.
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-xc ... f42bd0a3aa
400,000 gallons of radioactive water leaked from a nuclear plant in Minnesota

ST.. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators said Thursday they’re monitoring the cleanup of a leak of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water from Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant, and the company said there’s no danger to the public.

“Xcel Energy took swift action to contain the leak to the plant site, which poses no health and safety risk to the local community or the environment,” the Minneapolis-based utility said in a statement.

While Xcel reported the leak of water containing tritium to state and federal authorities in late November, the spill had not been made public before Thursday. State officials said they waited to get more information before going public with it.

“We knew there was a presence of tritium in one monitoring well, however Xcel had not yet identified the source of the leak and its location,” Minnesota Pollution Control Agency spokesman Michael Rafferty said.

[ZoWie]

Trouble in Paradise:

A freight train derailed in Paradise, Montana, on Sunday, according to the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office.

Approximately 25 cars were derailed around 9:20 a.m. near Highway 135, dispatcher Bill Brown told CNN. The train derailed on the banks of the Clark Fork River, approximately 200 miles northwest of Bozeman. Images from the scene show some of the cars in the river.

The sheriff’s office did not provide information on what the train was hauling. However, Brown said there did not appear to be any hazardous materials onboard.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/02/us/monta ... index.html