White House Deploys Health Personnel To Town Impacted By Ohio Train Crash

The Biden administration announced Friday that it will send health professionals to East Palestine, Ohio, as the small town reels from a Norfolk Southern train derailment.

Authorities previously evacuated all residents within one mile of the derailment and started a controlled burn of industrial chemicals present on the train to decrease the risk of an explosion. Vinyl chloride, a carcinogen used to manufacture PVC, was released from five train cars in the form of massive plumes of dark smoke visible in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania.