The former president — and current candidate — spoke at a firehouse roughly half a mile from where more than three dozen freight cars came off the tracks near the Pennsylvania state line.
By JILL COLVIN and JOHN SEEWERfederal response to the toxic train derailment
The former president and other Republicans have intensified criticism of the Biden administration’s handling of the Feb. 3 derailment, which led to evacuations andafter a controlled burning of toxic chemicals aboard the rail cars.
Mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, Trent Conaway speaks at the East Palestine Fire Department in front of former President Donald Trump as he visits the area in the aftermath of the Norfolk Southern train derailment Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Personalized water that former President Donald Trump donated sit on a pallet at the East Palestine Fire Department as he visits the area following the Norfolk Southern train derailment Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023.
This photo taken with a drone shows the continuing cleanup of portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed Friday night in East Palestine, Ohio, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited the site last week and tried to reassure skeptical residents that the water was fit for drinking and the air safe to breathe.
Buttigieg said this week that the Federal Railroad Administration will look at reviving that brake rule now, but the head of the National Transportation Safety Board pointed out that the brake rule couldn’t have helped in this derailment because the train wasn’t considered a “high hazardous flammable train.” Only three of the 20 hazardous materials cars this train was carrying were filled with flammable liquids.
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