UPDATE: Norfolk Southern said late Monday night that the operation had been “completed successfully”—though the gas may continue to burn through the night.
Officials detonated several train cars filled with toxic gas Monday after a derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, causing an explosion that reached several hundred feet into the air and sent a plume of black smoke into the sky that could be seen for miles.
Prior to the planned explosion, which took place around 3:30 p.m. local time, DeWine and the governor of neighboring Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, evacuated an area of two square miles along the states’ borders. The entire area is home to roughly 4,800 people,. It remains unclear when residents will be able to return to their homes.
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