100 Flee Gases From Fire After Derailment
United Press International
CROFTON, Ky. —
About 100 people were kept from their homes Friday, as crews worked to control a chemical fire in a derailed tank car that sent plumes of toxic gases over western Kentucky for two days.
The phosphorus tanker, part of a derailed CSX Railroad train, was reignited Thursday night after work crews righted it, and residents of the sparsely populated area near the scene of the wreck were evacuated.
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