Don’t burn? What do you want them to do? What’s the other, better course of action? Slow leak into streams? Slow evap, heavy fumes, into neighborhoods?
Ever see a fireman pump from a derailed tanker? They wouldn’t get much closer than these residents.
Ban plastic. Ban everything that burns. Ban railroads. Avoid all risk. Drop railroad speeds to 1mph.
What would governors know about pvc to give the burn call....like covid, not their expertise. It’s a railroad/osha call that would be standard operating proceedure for derailment. Is that what they did?
Panic everyone.
The crap in those cars was boiling..
It boils at 8 degrees F.
8 degrees!!!!!
What happens when you boil something in a sealed cylinder?
In the late ‘80’s, a propane car exploded... the car flew over 3600 feet..
And it would have spewed poison vapor over a far greater land mass...
This crap in gas form is deadly beyond belief.... letting it vent was out of the question...
So, let it explode, vent it, or empty it out and burn it...
Burning it was the best of 3 very bad choices.