The Tusla Junior Baseball league has been forced to forfeit its home field, and the North Lawrence fire department faces a damaged parking lot after a Norfolk Southern train derailment a year ago.
NORTH LAWRENCE, Ohio — North Lawrence’s Tusla Junior Baseball league has been forced to forfeit its home field, and the North Lawrence Fire Department, which is just feet away, remains shut out of its own parking lot because of damage and a mess left behind from a Norfolk Southern train derailment a year ago.
While Norfolk Southern crews were fixing the tracks, the North Lawrence fire department offered their parking lot and space to the train company. In return, Norfolk Southern officials promised they would handle the cleanup.Lieutenant Bandon Johnston with the North Lawrence fire department said Norfolk Southern’s heavy equipment on the lot damaged the concrete and brought on flooding in portions of the lot, which is now deemed unsafe for emergency vehicles and hospital life flights.
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