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a wheel bearing overheated and caught on fire. the gates of hell were open because you're just standing there in this wall of fire. i mean it's going up. i don't know . 2 stories, 3 stories up and it just fires all the way around. the skies lit up. it's just nothing you ever seen before. the woman has prompted questions about real safety in the us. this disaster could have been prevent it for years. well, both workers have worn, the changes in the industry were compromising safety. it was a disaster waiting to happen, and it happened phone lines investigates to us real industry and where their companies have prioritized profits, oversight, the kind of freaks me out. the money miller

in our family have lived across from the railroad tracks and east palace. these for nearly 3 decades were about a 3rd mile down here. and then how close is your homes to our home is roughly 200 feet from the rail line. and that's where we were the night as a derailment. and i, i knew instantly the sounds i knew that the train derailed and it was, it was terrifying the sounds, cars i could hear the impact in the cars, one after another. some. and it shook, and it rattled the windows, but it also had like a, an echo reverberation to it. this is the 90 degree on this, that was 944. so that's only like 4045 minutes after you have the image that was right. does that night,

that was 15 or 20 minutes after after it happened. and it was just me on the colors were just so vivid in neon pink and orange and you can see the flames . i've been to train to romance, but nothing of this magnitude. i don't know, i mean stephen safely as an emergency responder, who went these powers to try to put up the fire and you've been and other fires and you've been and other developments before. but this one, can you compare it to those all this? this would be everything else would be like, uh, on a, on a scale to about 3 this, this is the 10. i mean, fire everywhere. this is put it. she took that night, the train owned and run by the railroad company. norfolk southern was a 149 cars, long, 38 cars, the route, and 11 of them were caring,

hazardous materials. you can smell something and you knew it was a camera whole that was involved. so you can smell like an acetone. it was like a sweet acetone, and it tickled the back of your throat and you knew that there was some chemical involve the concerns that you were there breathing that on? yeah, i mean, i mean i didn't find out what the chemical was to the next day. there was like 7 different chemicals involved in that development fire. and they were all flat levels and talks or, you know, but the worst one was the vinyl fluoride by nuclear right is using the production to plastics is also a known course indigent that can cause liver damage with programmed exposure cancer . 2 days after the development a tanker caring vinyl, fluoride had become unstable and was at risk of exploding on sunday night. everyone's um, cellphones went off at the same time with an emergency alert, telling us to evacuate immediately because catastrophic failure of the tank or

a vinyl fluoride that was absolutely horrifying. hearing that sound the next day norfolk southern did what's called a controlled for leaks. been thing and burning up a portion of the train to avoid an even larger explosion. it looked like a bomb, went off right down the street from my home. the black smoke that filled the air with sinister it was terrifying. to watch that and know that that was going over our homes and over town and watching it because as it out and folded and the smoke was moving and or spreading out, it was

a blanket in our communities. 2 days after the controlled release, the officials told residence they could safely return. bologna and her family waited a few weeks until they went home because they weren't sure if it was safe to to the spread of chemicals. what was that like coming home again? probably the 1st 3 or 4 days that i was home, i was definitely afraid to touch anything in my own home. everything that you have in your home that you've acquired over the last 30 years of your life. and no, once you're free to touch it, i was afraid to clean a picture of my son was hanging on the wall a baby picture. i was afraid to take it off the wall and tried to clean it. i am not, i feel i'm not 6 there. i just want to leave at one point that big. my husband was just, we just put everything into a u haul. and let's just leave to reach cute because everything that we have

isn't invested in the house. you know it's memories, it's money, and it's your time. and it's your memories was your family and raising your family . when the train derailed, the spilled chemicals contaminated the soil in the area. but it took weeks for norfolk southern to begin removing. as soon as the evacuation order was lifted, those trains rolled through our town. water, contamination from the derailment, killed thousands of aquatic animals, and after the control burn, some residents say that experienced health issues leading to concerns about the long term impact. and how far the talks in touch spread into the air, water and soil. 3 weeks after the development, the local community group held a meeting to try and answer questions. my husband works here in town,

which is almost on top of grounds here. and the shop i didn't have the shot clean, they have back to work on the night what kind of dangers he and because of the soil out there, cuz they were actually cutting the train cars up in his shot parking. i wish i could answer that question. i really can't. there has to be testing done. otherwise, nobody will understand really what the risks are, but when you burn the chlorinated chemical like final chloride, you generate di, ox, dioxin, this category, there's like 75 of these dioxin, it's. one of them is the most toxic chemical ever tested in the united states. when that black cloud, then when they were burning all that stuff, there was lots of dioxin in that how much nobody knows because they've not test for it. so i went down to the creek myself after watching the news,

and they saw perfectly fine when i went down. and so i restarted the water in the water and i, i caught my wife and i say literally suffocated me for a minute. um, and this is a psychos fast, it was literally the air was so and i couldn't go to your family physician to get a baseline physical. now if you, oh, well, get a baseline. now, what is or is not in your water, because this is a long term. the auctions will hang around for a long, long time. probably what about a 100 years, something like that? yeah, we'll stay in the saw for a 100 years. with the impact of the roman expected to last for years, the communities inc or has turned to the real world company, norfolk southern world war with corporate green, with the politicians that have this money lined in their pocket. we're here for one issue, and that's to make our town space and to make sure none of this happens again in

our town or any other town. but now we need to place the man upon the railroad and need a ton of was residents of filed a class action lawsuit against norfolk southern and the justice department, along with environmental protection agency, are suing due to the toxic chemical release. the federal officials are also investigating the cause of the development. this was 100 percent preventable. this is a community that has been devastated. they deserve to know what happened, how to prevent it from happening again. their investigation is expected to take at least a year to complete the n t s b, which investigates transportation accidents to career steps and announced that they would also be launching an inquiry into norfolk southern safety culture at the heart of that is appropriate operating strategy. that is taken over the railroad

industry over the past decade known as precision. scheduled railroad, or p ups are the major freight railroads which run across the country to both small towns and large cities. and like, begin to employ tsr with the stated goal of increasing efficiency in lowering costs . to do that, real real company is closed real yard and cut tens of thousands of jobs. their profit sort director ties. well, if they can run the workers harder, you know, they need fuel workers that increases profitability, which increases the operating ratio, which makes wall street happy, which increases the bonuses of the seo get. the, with those changes became concerned about safety. i mean, the 1st time i heard of, of precision scheduled running, i thought that it's anything, but i mean, you know, it's not it's, they're laying off workers. it's not going to be safe. norfolk southern cut. it's workforce by more than a 3rd over the past decade. meaning fewer people to do the work. another key part

of p s r is running much longer trains to carry more freight federal regulators believe train link test played a role in the romans like this one in springfield, ohio just a month after east policy. and i started working on the railroad hits the drains were mile my on the corner long. now there are 2 to 3 miles long and it bad for train handling free reason. a lot of excess stress throughout the train is got wilcox was an engineer in norfolk southern for nearly 2 decades. infrequently drove trains through east palestine between salem and he's palestine. you have a lot of hills and curvature, and hills and curvature put more stress on that bearing and cause of heat up faster . it was a wheel bearing that initially caught fire on the east posting tree,

which was recorded on security footage before the train the route. now investigators are examining the more defect detectors on the track could have caught the problem earlier. and how norfolk southern inspects their trains before the depart during your time and norfolk southern to the culture particularly around safety change. oh absolutely. yeah. and it's not just norfolk, southern is always a class one railroads. it's hyper efficiency, do everything you can to reduce the amount of time that that uh a rail car sits in the yard. so as soon as it comes into the yard, the clock starts running and you want the car out of the yard. as soon as possible, definitely within 24 hours. it doesn't leave time for inspections. it doesn't leave time for repairs. anything like that. it's just get it out of my yard.

in the real good industry inspectors are known as carmen. we spent months reaching out to carmen to understand help us or has impacted their work the most for to afraid to speak with us, fearing retaliation, safety's out the door, everything's out the door moving freight as fast as possible. but we spoke with carmen from 5 separate norfolk southern real yards. the asked to remain anonymous. so we've read voice their interviews. everything was profits about anything else. it was get the job done, get the job done, and it was really bigger trains, less time, less people, and hurried down the track for our customers. they told us that they now have less time to inspect the trains. you can watch and start going down hill about 2017. they drastically cut our time to do our job. we started experiencing management but stop watches watching us do our job. and then they would threaten us to get the time down and then ultimately down to one minute per car. are we talking 30 seconds

on each side? that's correct. that's about, that's exactly what they expect this 30 seconds on each side. are you able to safely inspect a car in a minute or less? absolutely not. there's no way, there's way too many components on a real far for me to inspect in a minute or less. volt lines between the court document from 2021. in which of norfolk southern official confirmed the one minute inspection. you have 34 minutes, a car to inspect, and now you're down to 30 seconds aside. you cannot make those drastic changes and it's not affect your operation. reducing your workforce, bring the beer and people that their jobs hang in the balance. that will trickles down as something as simple as people having the time or taking the time to look at those bearing to look at the parts in the real car that needs to be inspected. to make sure that car can get from point a to point be safely. norfolk southern workers also told us they faced pressure to not bad order or tag cars with defects

. we want to report a defect that slowed down their hurry up and get it done. process that meant that something had to be done about it and they just want to afraid not at all costs. the bad order in a car was today and was considered a cn or my phone lines also spoke with several former norfolk southern workers. rob mullins was a carman for more than a decade before leaving last year. it's production, money, speed. they don't care if it's fixed, right? they just want our, they worry about the oil time. you know, the time that the car is bad order to the time it's repaired, put back in a train. they had a threshold that they didn't like to get above. and if you got above that, then it was everybody's working, double shifts until you got them. now i have heard of some places that wouldn't let you mad warner anymore. course if you got to a certain number,

then they just told you no more mad orders. what else do you think and if so, how that that culture change contributed to what happened at east bellas? oh that's. that's exactly what it was because it's, it's all keep the train moving. time is money and money is everything. you don't only have as a. the responsibility is other people, the worker, you got a responsibility to the public. these cars are rolling within feet of house that come in norfolk southern declined our request for an interview, but in a statement said that the one minute inspection times that guideline and not strictly enforced as to working with the federal government to encourage workers to confidentially report safety concerns but this isn't just about norfolk southern during the reporting, we also spoke to carmen from other us freight well books. and they told us to inspection times have also dropped in that they face pressure to not tag cars with

effects. we're having the same issues with all the class one routes, another county that some of the workers and we spoke with described to the environment we're raising concerns about safety is met with intimidation in hostility, something the main carmen june and confirmed. and there was a lot of whistle blowing, cases where people were able to get their jobs back. but it's, it's immunization, you know, you lose your job for a year or 2 years waiting for your case to go to arbitration and get back. the rules, making example on one person is scares everybody else. but we're seeing the safety of the countries railroad system lines with the federal railroad administration, f r a workers say that the agencies enforcement isn't strong enough. they need to do more inspections. they need to hire more. they need to be out there. they, they need to be the police of the room. they're not out there. they're not doing their job. the public is at

a greater risk without the proper inspection and maintaining of these equipment. it's not just that enforcement, it's weak. another issue that workers raise with us is companies have trained crews to inspections instead of carmen. it's actually something that federal regulations allow, but only if they're new, carmen on duty. the furnace told us that this exception has been used to avoid more thorough inspections. click companies found a loophole in the regulation where they can set these cars out in, in a outline track auxilary track outside the r we're no carmen are employed. so as a mechanical inspector doesn't inspect it, so it speeds up the operation. plus they don't find the bad orders, so they know carmen, find the bad orders. the f r e is aware of this, easily letter to all the major railroads about it. essentially asking them to stop

what needs to change. so there's a federal agency would safety oversight, doesn't have to ask in industry, not to do something like exploit loopholes. they may need need or any to say definitively. you're breaking the rules and you're going to be fine. and the next time you do it, the fines going to be bigger. stop doing this the right now. essentially they almost have to big like, oh we think this is bad. would you please stop doing it? that's not right. i mean they, they, they don't have enough. we're statutory authority to meaningfully deal with some of these products. the f or rate decline to request for an interview, but in a statement said that they're committed to quote, ensuring the highest levels of safety given f r. a more authority starts with congress after the east posting development. lawmakers are considering legislation

that which strength and safety regulations, we have allowed the rail industry to socialize the risk of their business while privatizing the rewards. among many things, the new bill directs the f r a to come up with a minimum time for inspections and ensure that they be done by carmen since 2020, that we have had more crashes successively year after year for 3 years. our rail system is becoming less safe, not more safe, but the bills paid isn't clear, remain concerned that this bill is overly and needlessly prescriptive in certain places. is faced opposition for many republicans, as well as the railroad industry, which is often lobby picking stricter rules. this bill is changed a lot from what i introduced just a few short months ago. we've made a number of concessions to industry. well the, the freight railroad has an enormous amount of cloud in the united states congress

. version of peter deposit. you told us it was nearly impossible to pass stricter legislation for the railroads during his 3 decades in congress. i mean, they have been very resistant to anything that would deal with, you know, length of trains or, you know, safety issues and other things over the years. the industry's power comes from the fact that the freight rail is of lynch pen of the us economy. the 6 major railroads transport everything from orland chemicals to food and counseling supplies, and they faced a lot of competition from any industry other than trucking. most businesses are captive to one river. you know the concentration in the industry with only like 6 class ones. i mean it's pretty extraordinary that they have that much quote, but it's been expressed over years. do you think there's a chance the current bill could be watered down by the industry? i fear and the it will be watered down by the industry,

by june more than 4 months after the spouse to the house with just to take up the bill. and it's toothpaste, republican opposition, leaving an unclear it will be passed by congress at all. we need to enforce the regulations, we need to have stronger regulations unsafe drains rolling through your back. you're not properly inspected. that should scare the hell out of the public. the f r a and congress needs to step in before we have another east pal assigned around what is it going to take? how much profit is enough when you're making millions of dollars? how much do you squeeze it? at what point is money more important than preventing something like that from happening again, the life

planned for, as i've seen in the future for us to leave this home to our son. so he could have a good start in life. we don't know what the future holds. it's just, i'm sorry, it's going to be safe and office stay here. we get out of dodge. we're still right next to the trucks where the memories are not no 3 derailments a day when they cross the country. $3.00 to $3.00, a day to 1000 a year. so pre safety and safety's for this from their priority list. how would they change? they have to flip humans 1st rather than their corporation. trends roll through everywhere in this country. they roll through the cities, the small towns. this could happen anywhere the

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