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A chemical gas leak from a rail tanker near Cincinnati prompted fears of an explosion and evacuation orders for people within at least a half-mile radius of the incident. Roughly 210 households in Whitewater Township, about 22 miles west-northwest of Cincinnati in an area near the city airport and the Kentucky state line, were under evacuation orders, officials said Tuesday night. Other residents were under shelter-in-place recommendations, they said at a news conference.
Firefighters were dousing the container with water in an attempt to reverse its temperature rise, he said. “This will be a long, long event,” Siefke said. Environmental officials were taking parts-per-million measurements in the community in an attempt to determine the leak's impact, the fire chief said. Some residents may have sought treatment for unknown ailments, but the number of patients and exact nature of their potential injuries was unconfirmed, he said.
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