2015 Mount Carbon train derailment
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2015-mount-carbon-train-derailment-213-4595210
title:
2015 Mount Carbon train derailment
text:
The 2015 Mount Carbon train derailment refers to a derailment in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, on February 16, 2015, which involved a CSX Transportation train hauling 107 tank cars of crude oil from North Dakota to Virginia. It resulted in a large oil spill that caught fire with several subsequent large, violent fireball eruptions. The spill, fire, and eruptions destroyed one home, forced the evacuation of hundreds of families and caused the temporary shut down of two nearby water treatment plant
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2015 West Virginia derailment
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Mount_Carbon_train_derailment
date created:
2015-02-16T23:39:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T17:42:11Z
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