Train Accident in TN

09/15/02 | scab4faa

[scab4faa]

Train Accident in Farragut, tn spewing Sulphuric Acid

[Chad Fairbanks]

I am in series need of a shower, now...

[umgud]

Where is Farragut?

[tomahawk]

Just to the West of Knoxville, where I live. I'm about 5 miles away.

[LurkedLongEnough]

15 miles from Oak Ridge

[HairOfTheDog]

Me too... hurry up...

[Chad Fairbanks]

I saved some hot water for ya...

[JustAnAmerican]

Train derails -- sulfuric acid forces evacuation
Authorities are evacuating hundreds of people from Farragut and West Knox County today after a railroad tanker car carrying about 95,000 gallons of sulfuric acid derailed, ruptured and sendt plumes of corrosive gas into the air.
Website http://www.knoxnews.com/

[OReilly]

I'm about 5 miles away.

Is that inside the circle that CNN is reporting: is being asked to evacuate?

[Constitution Day]

Just don't shower with "SULFPURIC ACID".

That might seriesly be the last shower you ever need.

[scab4faa]

Thanks.. didn't have an internet address for it.

[tomahawk]

No, there is a 3-mile evacuation radius.

[scab4faa]

Train derails -- sulfuric acid forces evacuation
By Don Jacobs and J.J. Stambaugh, News-Sentinel staff writers
September 15, 2002

Authorities are evacuating hundreds of people from Farragut and West Knox County today after a railroad tanker car carrying about 95,000 gallons of sulfuric acid derailed, ruptured and sendt plumes of corrosive gas into the air.

The wreck, which left several tanker cars twisted and stacked upon each other, occurred about 11:30 a.m. near Anchor Park off Turkey Creek Road. Columns of gas were shooting hundreds of feet into the air after the wreck.

"Right now, TEMA (Tennessee Emergency Management Agency) is telling us to evacuate people for a three-mile radius," said Knox County Sheriff Tim Hutchison.

Familes in a 1.3-mile radius of Brixworth and Turkey Creek already are being evacuated.

An evacuation center will open at 2 p.m. at Bearden High School, according to the Red Cross. Most residents were being told by authorities to leave before any relocation site had been established.

"We're just packing all of our clothes for overnight," said Gary Strand, an evacuated resident of Brixworth subdivision. "I don't expect we'll be coming back today."

Strand, his wife Barbara, and their two children, Garrett, 13, and Anika, 11, live in the subdivision closest to the wreck. Strand said he at first ignored sirens from sheriff's deputies cars until he looked out a window and "saw this huge cloud of smoke."

The cloud of toxic gas, which is injurious to the lungs, also was drifting across Fort Loudoun Lake and into Blount County, Hutchison said. Blount County residents were being warned at 1 p.m. of the possible need to evacuate their homes.

Hutchison said more than 100 deputies were joining the effort to evacuate residents. Rural/Metro's hazardous materials team was on the scene and the Tennessee Highway Patrol was deploying troopers to aid in traffic control as a stream of vehicles were leaving subdivisions.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Point of order...aren't you supposed to wait for the first "is this terrorism" post before you get in the shower? ;^)

I'm series about this.......

[Chad Fairbanks]

Whoops! Too late now...

[OReilly]

Just don't shower with "SULFPURIC ACID".

And if you or any one in your family use Hydrogen Peroxide as hair bleach, and or uses Acetone based nail polish remover... Let the roots show, leave the old polish on, and get some of that Mitchum heavy duty Deodorant!

[Chad Fairbanks]

I didn't want to wait that long... gotta get there while there is still hot water...

I do wonder, however, how this train could have derailed all on it's own though... I bet they are not telling us everything... ;0)

[F.J. Mitchell]

That is the stinkiest stuff on God's green earth-not to even mention corosive. Poor Tennessee, even if the Volunteers have the best team ever, everyone will be saying they stink, this year.

All BS aside, my sympathy to those who will be cleaning up this mess, and prayers that all anywhere close to the accident are safe and stay that way.

[JustAnAmerican]

"Thanks.. didn't have an internet address for it.

Glad to help, of course if you had not done the leg work I would never have seen the article. From the write-up it sounds pretty bad. Getting too coincidental though, just yesterday another taker exploded, at a chemical plant in Texas. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/750063/posts

[Tennessee_Bob]

Well, I was watching it on the local news earlier, until they went back to their standard Sunday programming. A little while ago, they were running a little marquee across the bottom of the screen advising folks to evacuate or move inside, close doors and windows, and turn off the A/C. Now there's nothing about it. I think the local television stations have been co-opted by Al Queda. Pretty soon, we'll see them asking for folks to head Turkey Creek with sponges to help with the clean up.