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A train derailmented near where i grew up.. been contacting relatives etc who still live there.. its around 12 miles south of louisville, Ky heres the news
Train derailment, explosion causes evacuations
12:40 PM EST on Tuesday, January 16, 2007
by WHAS11 News
The Bullitt County Sheriff’s department is responding to a fiery train crash that happened at approximately 8:45 a.m. Tuesday. Nearly 20 cars were derailed in the crash.
All of Bullitt County is under a Hazardous Materials Warning reported by the Bullitt County Emergency Management Agency.
A poison control expert told WHAS11 News that he believes that the train was carrying butadiene. Butadiene is a chemical used in industrial manufacturing and is a respiratory irritant. If it is inhaled, it can cause problems for the elderly and those with asthma.
The Kentucky National Guard is sending the 41st Civil Support Team to monitor air quality and determine if the air is toxic. Metro Louisville Fire & Rescue is also sending crews to help combat the fire.
Emergency officials are telling residents in the Bullitt County area to close all windows, bring in pets and turn off heaters.
Brooks Elementary School is being evacuated and students are being transported to Hebron Middle School. Micah Christian School in Hillview, Ky. is closing three hours early as a precaution. Parents may pick up students at any time.
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A train derailment in Bullitt County shut down I-65 and forced evacuations
Jefferson County Public Schools are monitoring the situation and believe they are safe at this time. The afternoon preschool sessions at Bullitt Co. elementary schools are cancelled today. Morning session students will go home at the end of the school day.
Bullitt County District Court will be cancelled this afternoon because police are tied up at the crash. Other court divisions have not decided to cancel yet. Judge Rebecca Ward said anyone who has a trial date will be notified of the new date by mail.
Both north and southbound I-65 are shut down for approximately a half-mile in either direction between the Gene Snyder and exit 117 at Shepherdsville. Hwy. 1020 near Huber Station Rd. have also been shut down.
Motorists traveling southbound on Interstate 65 should detour the area via westbound I-265 and Kentucky 841, southbound US 31-W, eastbound Kentucky 313 and then reconnect with southbound Interstate 65.
Motorists traveling northbound on Interstate 65 should detour the area via westbound Kentucky 313, northbound US 31-W, eastbound KY 841 and Interstate 265 and then reconnect with northbound Interstate 65.
Metro Government spokesman Matt Kamer says that the priority in Louisville is the air. They are keeping an eye on the wind, and have a representative from the health department on scene monitoring the air. They have offered mutual aid in terms of EMS and fire department personnel, and have been taken up on that.
Metro Louisville also has a couple of EMS units standing by, fire department fuel trucks refueling the fire department on scene, and their mobile emergency command post is on scene to assist in communications. They also have Hazmat crews on stand-by, but those have not been requested by Bullitt County at this point.
Kamer says that they are going to have to keep monitoring the air, and also I-65, for the possible traffic impact as this continues.
WHAS11 News will bring you more information as it becomes available.
Web story produced by Brittney Hubbard.
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From The Associated Press:
By DYLAN LOVAN / Associated Press Writer
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Several CSX train cars derailed in a fiery heap Tuesday south of Louisville, shutting down a nearby highway and forcing evacuations of nearby homes, businesses and a school, authorities said.
A CSX spokesman said the train was carrying hazardous materials, and the blaze produced a massive column of black smoke in the mostly rural area. Television footage showed several blazing cars stacked across the rail lines and flaming liquid flowing down ditches from the mangled tanker cars.
“We had a train derailment with some type of an explosion,” said Kentucky State Police dispatcher Joey Mattingly.
There were no immediate reports of injuries from the wreck that occurred about 8:50 a.m. EST.
CSX spokesman Gary Sease said the train consisted of four locomotives and 80 cars headed from Birmingham, Ala., to Louisville. At least three cars carried liquid propane gas, he said. Forty-one cars were loaded with freight and the rest were empty, he said.
He said authorities didn’t yet know what caused the derailment.
The immediate area, including Brooks Elementary School, was evacuated, said state police Maj. Lisa Rudzinski. She did not give the radius of the affected area, which has a mixture of residential, industrial and rural properties.
Authorities also shut down an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 65, Mattingly said.
Bullitt County resident Daymon Strange, who lives less than a half-mile from the crash, said he was outside feeding some ducks when he heard a boom.
“I turned around and looked and there was fire at least 500 feet in the air,” he said in a telephone interview. “I’ve never seen such a fire. It was huge.”
Strange said he smelled the fumes even though they were blowing away from his home.
“You can taste it and feel it in your lungs when you go outside,” he said.
Authorities shut down an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 65, Mattingly said.
The Kentucky National Guard said it mobilized about 20 soldiers and airmen to check air quality.
It was the second fiery train crash in Kentucky in the last two days. On Monday, four runaway rail cars struck two parked locomotives in central Kentucky, causing a fire and spilling a chemical that prompted a limited evacuation.
Train derailment, explosion causes evacuations
12:40 PM EST on Tuesday, January 16, 2007
by WHAS11 News
The Bullitt County Sheriff’s department is responding to a fiery train crash that happened at approximately 8:45 a.m. Tuesday. Nearly 20 cars were derailed in the crash.
All of Bullitt County is under a Hazardous Materials Warning reported by the Bullitt County Emergency Management Agency.
A poison control expert told WHAS11 News that he believes that the train was carrying butadiene. Butadiene is a chemical used in industrial manufacturing and is a respiratory irritant. If it is inhaled, it can cause problems for the elderly and those with asthma.
The Kentucky National Guard is sending the 41st Civil Support Team to monitor air quality and determine if the air is toxic. Metro Louisville Fire & Rescue is also sending crews to help combat the fire.
Emergency officials are telling residents in the Bullitt County area to close all windows, bring in pets and turn off heaters.
Brooks Elementary School is being evacuated and students are being transported to Hebron Middle School. Micah Christian School in Hillview, Ky. is closing three hours early as a precaution. Parents may pick up students at any time.
Sky11
A train derailment in Bullitt County shut down I-65 and forced evacuations
Jefferson County Public Schools are monitoring the situation and believe they are safe at this time. The afternoon preschool sessions at Bullitt Co. elementary schools are cancelled today. Morning session students will go home at the end of the school day.
Bullitt County District Court will be cancelled this afternoon because police are tied up at the crash. Other court divisions have not decided to cancel yet. Judge Rebecca Ward said anyone who has a trial date will be notified of the new date by mail.
Both north and southbound I-65 are shut down for approximately a half-mile in either direction between the Gene Snyder and exit 117 at Shepherdsville. Hwy. 1020 near Huber Station Rd. have also been shut down.
Motorists traveling southbound on Interstate 65 should detour the area via westbound I-265 and Kentucky 841, southbound US 31-W, eastbound Kentucky 313 and then reconnect with southbound Interstate 65.
Motorists traveling northbound on Interstate 65 should detour the area via westbound Kentucky 313, northbound US 31-W, eastbound KY 841 and Interstate 265 and then reconnect with northbound Interstate 65.
Metro Government spokesman Matt Kamer says that the priority in Louisville is the air. They are keeping an eye on the wind, and have a representative from the health department on scene monitoring the air. They have offered mutual aid in terms of EMS and fire department personnel, and have been taken up on that.
Metro Louisville also has a couple of EMS units standing by, fire department fuel trucks refueling the fire department on scene, and their mobile emergency command post is on scene to assist in communications. They also have Hazmat crews on stand-by, but those have not been requested by Bullitt County at this point.
Kamer says that they are going to have to keep monitoring the air, and also I-65, for the possible traffic impact as this continues.
WHAS11 News will bring you more information as it becomes available.
Web story produced by Brittney Hubbard.
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From The Associated Press:
By DYLAN LOVAN / Associated Press Writer
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Several CSX train cars derailed in a fiery heap Tuesday south of Louisville, shutting down a nearby highway and forcing evacuations of nearby homes, businesses and a school, authorities said.
A CSX spokesman said the train was carrying hazardous materials, and the blaze produced a massive column of black smoke in the mostly rural area. Television footage showed several blazing cars stacked across the rail lines and flaming liquid flowing down ditches from the mangled tanker cars.
“We had a train derailment with some type of an explosion,” said Kentucky State Police dispatcher Joey Mattingly.
There were no immediate reports of injuries from the wreck that occurred about 8:50 a.m. EST.
CSX spokesman Gary Sease said the train consisted of four locomotives and 80 cars headed from Birmingham, Ala., to Louisville. At least three cars carried liquid propane gas, he said. Forty-one cars were loaded with freight and the rest were empty, he said.
He said authorities didn’t yet know what caused the derailment.
The immediate area, including Brooks Elementary School, was evacuated, said state police Maj. Lisa Rudzinski. She did not give the radius of the affected area, which has a mixture of residential, industrial and rural properties.
Authorities also shut down an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 65, Mattingly said.
Bullitt County resident Daymon Strange, who lives less than a half-mile from the crash, said he was outside feeding some ducks when he heard a boom.
“I turned around and looked and there was fire at least 500 feet in the air,” he said in a telephone interview. “I’ve never seen such a fire. It was huge.”
Strange said he smelled the fumes even though they were blowing away from his home.
“You can taste it and feel it in your lungs when you go outside,” he said.
Authorities shut down an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 65, Mattingly said.
The Kentucky National Guard said it mobilized about 20 soldiers and airmen to check air quality.
It was the second fiery train crash in Kentucky in the last two days. On Monday, four runaway rail cars struck two parked locomotives in central Kentucky, causing a fire and spilling a chemical that prompted a limited evacuation.