Posted on 02/04/2023 4:29:29 PM PST by DallasBiff
Officials in Columbiana County are responding to East Palestine following a train derailment and major fire that lit up the night sky for miles Friday night.
Initial calls came out shortly after 9 p.m. to the area of East Taggart Street along the railroad tracks that travel east-west through town
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Oh, what about those horribly unsafe pipelines? s/
There is a Palestine, TX!
Taggart Street? I’m getting the heavy duty Reynolds’s out.
Norfolk-Southern, they are rerouting trains through the Southern Tier Line (the former Erie line..)!
There’s a place on the map called Gaza, Iowa, and also an Elkader, Iowa, named for the same guy as Al Qaeda terrorist group.
Beautiful part of Texas!
freaakin thing is still burning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emir_Abdelkader
“ Husayni.
Emir
Abdelkader El Djezaïri
عـبـد الـقـادر الـجـزائـري
Abd al-Qadir.jpg
Photographed by Étienne Carjat in 1865
Native name
عبد القادر ابن محي الدين
Birth name Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine al-Hasani-
Born 6 September 1808
Guetna, Regency of Algiers
Died 26 May 1883 (aged 74)
Damascus, Ottoman Syria[1]
Buried El Alia Cemetery
Rank Emir
Battles/wars Battle of Macta
Battle of Sig
Battle of Sidi-Brahim
Battle of Oued Aslaf
Battle of Agueddin
Awards Legion of Honour (Grand Cross)
Order of Pius IX
First Class of the Order of the Medjidie
Order of the Redeemer (Grand Cross)
Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883; Arabic: عبد القادر ابن محي الدين ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥy al-dīn), known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abdelkader El Hassani El Djazairi, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algiers in the early 19th century.”
“ The town of Elkader, Iowa in the United States is named after Abdelkader. The town’s founders Timothy Davis, John Thompson and Chester Sage were impressed by his fight against French colonial power and decided to pick his name as the name for their new settlement in 1846.”
NTSB first briefing - they don’t have or provide much information. The lead investigator looks like he just crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico (sorry, appearance matters).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88V-rNL4MNQ
Much better info, coverage, photos and video at this link:
https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/crews-on-scene-of-train-derailment-in-east-palestine/
Incident happened about 9 p.m. Friday night and as of now, Saturday night, it is still burning due to flammable chemicals in tank cars surrounded by burning materials in other cars or adjoining property. Primary chemical that is hazardous is vinyl chloride and there are multiple cars of it derailed with some on fire.
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