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Fires Dwindling in Illinois Oil Train Blaze After Derailment

2015-03-09 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Firefighters on Sunday were still working to extinguish the last of a series of fires that erupted when a BNSF Railway train loaded with crude oil derailed two days ago in a rural area south of Galena, Illinois, a local official said. The incident marked the latest in a series of derailments in North America involving trains hauling crude oil, heightening focus on rail safety. Nobody was injured in the fiery Thursday wreck, in which 21 cars of a 105-car BNSF train that originated in North Dakota...

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