No injuries were reported as a result of the fifty-carriage train derailing on Friday evening in Ohio, near the border with Pennsylvania.
Several explosions were heard as vehicles continued to burn Saturday, according to local media, despite the efforts of firefighters, which were slowed by the freezing of water tanks as a result of the severe cold that hits this part of North America at the end of the week..
This train was carrying vinyl chloride, a chemical used to make plastics.
About 2,000 residents were ordered to evacuate their homes. Local authorities ordered all residents within a radius of 1.6 km from the disaster site to evacuate.
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