“Because I was persistent and because I used my voice, I got the railroad to come to my house to send a toxicologist there who deemed my house unsafe to be in,” Cozza explained.
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio - The East Palestine community is still desperate for answers following the massive train derailment nearly three weeks ago.
Cozza said after the evacuation order was lifted, she was told it was safe to go home. She said she pushed for officials to test not only her air but her water and soil, which changed things. “When you burn a chemical like vinyl chloride you generate dioxins, there’s like 75 of these dioxins,” Lester explained. “One of them is the most toxic chemical ever tested in the United States,
“What they did was they took a potential and they made it a for sure,” Caggiano said. “I call it the laboratory experiment from hell because we basically dumped a ton of chemicals into a pit and burned them off because anybody whose been in chemistry knows when you do that you don’t know what you’re gonna get when you’re done.”
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