However, Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, the director of the Ohio Department of Health, recommended that people around the area near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border should use bottled water while municipal water sources are tested.
Gov. Mike DeWine speaks during a news conference in Columbus on Tuesday giving an update on the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, director of the Ohio Department of Health, stands behind him. COLUMBUS, Ohio – Air-quality testing indicates that the chemicals spilled and burned from a train that derailed near East Palestine last week don’t pose a major health hazard, Gov. Mike DeWine and state officials said on Tuesday.
Last week’s East Palestine train derailment released three other hazardous chemicals into the environment besides the vinyl chloride preemptively set afire by officials, according to federal environmental regulators. However, Vanderhoff said testing conducted in the area has shown that air quality has returned to levels seen before the derailment. Water testing has shown a couple of the chemicals remain in some streams, though there doesn’t appear to be any increase in fish or aquatic creatures killed since the first couple days, according to Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz.
When DeWine was asked if he would return to his house if he lived near East Palestine, the governor replied, “I would be alert and concerned. But I think that I would probably be back in my house.”
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