tonight, investigative reporter wendy saltsman is uncovering the routes these trains are traveling right through your neighborhoods and whether enough is being done to keep us all safe. wendy. >> reporter: i can tell you that this is a topic very few are emergency responders wanted to talk to us b more than a handful of local departments including city of philadelphia and several municipalities in new jersey decline our request for an interview. our cameras caught this potentially dangerous material being transported right along the schuylkill river densely populated neighborhood and into neighboring new jersey. they have been called bomb trains, more than 100 car freight trains carrying crude oil, traveling across the oil field in north day coat shipped to gas refineries right here in philadelphia camden and across the you had. >> i think it is back and forth, just flammability. >> reporter: emergency response experts describe this crude as a volatile, unstable for the of petroleum. rail safety and security consultant fred miller says there is no way for emergency responders to be prepa

kin oil which is same form of highly flammable explosive crude oil that investigative reporter wendy saltsman alerted you to earlier this month in an "action news" investigation. the crude oil is also being transported through philadelphia neighborhood and south jersey. while no major explosions have happened, 11 train tank cars carrying crude oil derailed in south philadelphia in the past few weeks. now, last january a 101 car csx train partially derailed over the the schuylkill. six of those cars were carrying crude while two freight cars dangled precariously over the schuylkill river. >>> it may look like an ice palace but this is no fantasy. this is what was a brutal mission for philadelphia fire fighters. a blaze erupted early this morning at a doctor's office at 52nd and locust. but the fire was soon replaced by ice. fire fighters poured tons of water on the blaze, and in near zero temperatures every drop froze. and coded the building in a half inch of ice. fire officials were worried that the weight of the ice put additional stress on the burned out structure. and then there were the f