In Iowa, after the Minnesota derailment, another HAZMAT train accident occurs. It is the second incident in the US in around one day.
On Sunday afternoon around 2 pm, about 80 people in a city in northwest Iowa moved out. A Union Pacific train hauling hazardous materials derailed and then caught fire.
A spokeswoman for the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management said there were no reports of injuries or fatalities but again like a previous accident It was also not clear where the train was headed or how many cars it carried.
On Sunday northwestern Iowa a small town of roughly 2,700 residents on the border with Minnesota. Although no hamper occurred the town took safety orders over a “HAZMAT train derailment and fire,”. Immediately they sealed off the area within 5 miles of the crash.
Maybe the train carried fertilizer and various chemicals like highly volatile ammonium nitrate said a local media reporter. With a large cloud of black smoke for fire, Dozens of cars were squeezed and head up on top of one another.
The full amount of the damage was not immediately clear coz after sunset some of the cars were on fire.
according to radio station KIWA, a local emergency center said it becomes a warning for them as two big accident occurs within 24 hours.
“If residents are sheltering in their homes, it is recommended to have them open their windows on both sides of their homes and have people positioned in the middle of their homes,”
In central Illinois, another cargo train derailed On May 11that At the time chemical leaks did not detect by the HAZMAT team, and still the causes of derailments not clear yet.