Taylor Holzer, owner of a dairy farm just outside the evacuation zone, has said that several foxes he keeps on his property have become mortally ill.
last Friday which released toxic chemicals into the air, according to reports — sparking fears of the potential health impacts the crash could have on humans.told WKBN several“Out of nowhere, he just started coughing really hard, just shut down, and he had liquid diarrhea and just went very fast,” Holzer told the outlet of one of his animals.He said others have developed watery eyes and puffy faces, and have uncharacteristically refused to eat for several days.
A cocktail of deadly chemicals — including highly toxic vinyl chloride and hydrogen chloride — spilled out after 50 cars on a Norfolk Southern Railroad train derailed en route to Pennsylvania. “Breathe those in under heavy concentrations, and it’s really bad for you,” Crist told the network. “It’s like an acid mist. It’s not something that you want to be around in high concentrations.”burn in the area to avoid a “catastrophic tanker failure” that could have set off a gigantic explosion.
But scattered reports of dead animals well outside the original evacuation zone continue to stoke fears.
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