East Palestine Fire Chief Keith Drabick said there was a consensus in the command center that releasing the chemicals from the cars and burning them was the “least bad option.”
Thursday’s proceedings are focused on the emergency response to the derailment and the crucial decision officials made three days later toThat move sent a towering plume of black smoke over the town near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and prompted the evacuation of about half of East Palestine’s 5,000 residents. Officials have defended that decision as the best option when faced with the prospect of an explosion that would have sent shrapnel into the town.
The fire chiefs said the initial response to the derailment was complicated because the radios used by the different departments don’t work with each other. Drabick said it took about 45 minutes for his department to gather information about what was on the train.
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