East Palestine residents and organizers say their aid work aims to help the community and counter co-optation by far-right Republicans & neofascists organizations seeking to exploit the disaster for their gain.
that she lives near the incinerator’s smoke stack and is a survivor of both cervical and ovarian cancer and has lost many friends and loved ones to cancer over the years. “Now [state and local officials are] just like, ‘You know what? We already killed Columbiana County. It isn’t going to matter if we put some more on them.
Deeter said she and her family evacuated the town and stayed with her brother on the first night of the derailment. They evacuated again the night before the controlled burn, fearing an explosion. They stayed away for at least five days before returning to collect supplies, she said. “As soon they lifted the evacuation order, you could hear the trains coming back into town. It was maybe three or four minutes after they lifted it, really,” Deeter told. “I think the people that [officials] kept in mind through the whole thing was Norfolk Southern. They did this controlled release I think just to get the railroad up and running again.”
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