Citizens Evacuated After Pennsylvania Train Derailment, Fire
HYNDMAN, Pa. (AP) – Part of a freight train has derailed in Pennsylvania causing three cars to burn, as well as a residential garage they struck, prompting emergency officials to evacuate residents in a 1-mile radius.
Bedford County 911 coordinator Harry Corley says six cars on the CSX freight train derailed about 5 a.m. in Hyndman. That’s about 100 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Nobody has been hurt or killed.
Some of the train’s cars were filled with flammable liquid asphalt.
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