Some 45 homes have been evacuated after two of the three ethanol-carrying derailed cars began leaking, the WGRZ news channel reported, citing Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office.
VIDEO: emergency personnel in Ripley work to contain ethanol leak from train derailment.18 cars derailed, 2 leaking pic.twitter.com/hiJdmbC4Tr
— Nate Benson (@natebenson) March 2, 2016
The county's emergency services advised residents to stay clear of the rail road that runs along Shaver Street, the channel said.
On late Tuesday, 18 of the train's 33 cars derailed near Shaver Street and Mechanic Street in Ripley, according to media reports. Residents within 300 meters (1,000 feet) were evacuated after one of the cars began to leak hazardous material. No injuries were reported.
Chautauqua County Sheriff tells me 18 rail cars detailed in Ripley, 3 w/ hazardous material, 2 leaking ethanol @wgrz pic.twitter.com/j0GezzRc2q
— Nate Benson (@natebenson) March 2, 2016
Ethanol can cause intoxication and is highly volatile and flammable.
FUTABA, Japan — Seen from the road below, the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station looks much as it may have right after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that caused a triple meltdown here almost five years ago.
The No. 3 reactor building, which exploded in a hydrogen fireball during the disaster, remains a tangle of broken concrete and twisted metal. A smashed crane sits exactly where it was on March 11, 2011. To the side of the reactor units, a building that once housed boilers stands open to the shore, its rusted, warped tanks exposed.
The scene is a testament to the chaos that was unleashed when the tsunami engulfed these buildings, triggering the world's worst nuclear disaster since the one in Chernobyl, in Ukraine, in 1986. Almost 16,000 people were killed along Japan's northeastern coast in the tsunami, and 160,000 more lost their homes and livelihoods.
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