Family Struggles After Losing It All to Toxic Train Disaster
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- Maura Todd and her family lost nearly everything after a freight train pulling tons of toxic chemicals flew off the tracks in their tiny town of East Palestine. They used to have a nice home in the Ohio hamlet. Now they live in a camper in Kentucky. The environmental catastrophe caused by that crash included leaking vinyl chloride, a known cause of cancer in humans. Massive chemical testing still continues. The Todds will never go back. "I have nightmares about that train," says Maura.
This is the real cost of criminal level of deregulation
But they never blame the GOP and there Corporations pushing deregulation laws.
@@user-nc2qj2jc5q yep, GOP loves to destroy regulations. Vote blue.
@@user-nc2qj2jc5qDon't bring politics into this
@@tomboyjessie1352um but it is tho
@@user-nc2qj2jc5qtrue. Tho Obama and Biden didn't make it better. Remember Obama with terrible coexit with the Gulf oil contamination disaster.
and now big corporations have scooped up that land for pennies on the dollar. even residents who wanted to keep their places couldnt cuz of fees assessed for the damaged land/cleanup
its sabotage my dud only takes a childs brain to link russian cells chemical derailments is also happening is europe munition plants mysteriously exploding
that is crazy that the residents would have to pay for the fees when it was not even their fault.
@@AlphaParticle i know, i found out about it when my neighborhood burnt in lake county cali, 2016. landowner has to pay for ALL clean up. various agencies inspect & assess fees & fines to ur property taxes. insurance companies dont cover this as a rule, just replacement of damaged stuff, not clean ups. u wind up walking away & giving property to state for nada. its a scheme.
It almost feels like it was done on purpose
@@DefinitelyNotAFerret not almost
these families should each get millions. the trauma cannot be undone. but those responsible can easily let them at least not have to worry over finances while the try to rebuild the rest of their lives. Wishing peace and strength to all of the victims ❤
No, they voted for it. Now they have to live with it. No bail outs.
@@Theonetruegod-hw2ei Voted for what exactly?
@@LoneWulff829 deregulation. Try to keep up.
@@Theonetruegod-hw2eidoesn’t change corporate responsibility for financial loss, pain and suffering, and injury.
Where's the Federal Government when you really need them?!?!?!?!!
Trump removed the Obama-era safety rule for high-hazard cargo trains... and nobody has done anything since.
Probably swimming in blood money
@@ogre5175 Man you ain't lying, that's exactly what they're doing.
I think I remember during this time the fed, the big media and the general populace was more interested in the Chinese spy balloon traversing across the US or something else I couldn't remember.
Giving aid to foreign countries
Someone should be held accountable
Why? They voted for it.
@@Theonetruegod-hw2ei what makes you think that you don’t know who voted for anything maybe you shouldn’t be talking
Blame Biden
@@Theonetruegod-hw2eiFYI, Trump removed many regulations, including railroads regulations
@@alvilla701 yes, that is why they voted for him.
The company transporting those chemicals should be liable to compensate all these people😢😢
The governor was the one that ok'd the burning of the chemicals.
@@philbuell6657 pay those families for their damages
@@philbuell6657; well like it said in the video pitting out the fires could’ve caused an explosion.
Ain't gonna happen
That is such a horrible thing to happen. What a nightmare !! Very sad to have to leave your home like this. We live very close a busy train tracks and I have been wondering many times how much dangerous toxic things has passed by.
Same here in northeast Colorado I live about half mile from a BNSF track wonder a lot about what's being shipped lately
How many toxic things*
How do you as an American not know the difference between much and many?
The fact that this happened period means it could happen anywhere
Norfolk Southern owes this family and many more hundreds of millions of dollars for what they did to these people. The only ones "struggling to survive" here should be Norfolk Southern!
We just keep using known carcinogens without any concern and then wonder why so many have cancer
@@lucysky8378 it's not by accident, just think about it.
Almost everything is a carcinogen, it just depends on its effectiveness. The sun causes most cancers... sunscreen leads to cancer... what doesn't 😂.
In the case of this situation, transportation for big chemicals like this should have been much more secure.
That's not the point. We use dangerous chemical stuff all the time and for the most part, people do their due diligence to keep saftey. But it's scenarios like this one where someone really screwed it up.
Now a judge, any judge gets to decide whether the site is 'clean enough.
I'm so sad for those families, my prayers go out to everyone that had to go through that, lost their home or a loved one 😢 🙏
That's all they can believe and do. Train company is so powerful, manipulative and corrupt
Womp Womp. Nobody cares.
Please heed no attention to Based_Gigachad
@@Based_Gigachad_001 Bro, that family lost almost everything. You could have at least kept it to yourself. I don't think anyone, including you and me, would want to lose everything following a toxic train derailment. Be considerate towards others.
@@Based_Gigachad_001 that's crazy lol
This is nuts. So the company responsible did nothing?
This reminds me of the pipeline disaster back in 1999
Omg- I watched a video on that and it was horrible
I don't know what that is but I do know what I'm watching next
@@mellowmayelo it’s so sad :(
@RaptorDragons Citizens, oblivious to the dangers around them because of corporate greed and government sellouts, sounds like the norm, but man, hearing the kids' skin was dripping off their fingers was gruesome, even worse is hearing the doctor say they wouldn't survive because they had no skin. God help anyone caught in this norm
@@mellowmayelo yea, I felt so terrible for the boy, imagine getting burned alive and just seeing skin melt from your fingers and hands, may he rest in peace 🕊️
It didn’t contaminate their small town, it contaminated over 16 states and parts of Canada. The water, air, soil… everything.
But it did contaminate their small town. Two things can be true.
Government should fix this give everyone affected a new home for free!!
Take the money from the corporate CEO. Of these companies.
Take it from the corporation and railroad company
why would they do that when they can just ignore it and not take responsibility
They rather sell the land to the big companies then get more money for the cleanups. It’s a damn shame the government is doing this to its own citizens.
It should be on the corporation, not the government. Government is funded by tax dollars, so really they'd be taking money from the people. It should be the corporations responsibility.
Sue the corporation who caused it
I hope people sue the train company
Sue the defect detector instead. It didn’t alert the crew of NS 32N of the overheating axle bearing
@@lizcorredor3480 Hispanic?
The NS railroad didn’t do it purposely
@@SignalMan9292 True. Its just an accident with over-exaggeration about hazardous chemicals
@@CP_N503 No -- NS can be sued directly and if NS wants to -- THEY can in turn sue the defect detector -- a victim has no responsibility to perform that legal gymnastic move.
As a fellow Ohioian, I am so angry and sad no one has done so little for these people. Whatever anyone tells you, the government still haven’t made it right and they still haven’t done enough.
Oh how i feel for all of these families! They lost everything. God help them❤
Maybe we should ask politicians to help them instead. God can't do anything for them.
@@sohu86xonly person who can save america is trump (im australian)
@@crixii. Why?
@@sohu86xwhy Joe Biden ignored whole Americans?
They voted for it. God gave it to them.
Breathing in PVC fumes is so bad and toxic. I cant imagine being a resident there.❤
What about the resident's pets and the strays too?
@@user-po9ux1ge8z It killed the fish, birds and other wildlife.
And whos brilliant idea was to put all that chemicals in one big train and think nauh aint nothing gonna happen
They do it all the time. Chemicals have to move around, and if it isn't by train, then it's by pipeline or truck. I think this one was caused by an overheated bearing journal, known in railroading as a hotbox.
If there's no regulation then who cares, $$$ is what matters.
Best thing is to leave .you life is more important than anything and yeah don't ever trust anyone that's # 1
First it was the small town at Lac-Mégantic, now it's East Palestine.
I’m so sorry to the people who got to be participating in this horrible event
Gonna cry? 😢
Privatizing profits and socializing losses...
Hispanic?
I can't believe it's been a year, I wonder when could they allow them to come back years later.
I don't want to be a broken record but this's where the billion or trillion $$$ could come in to help these people, our people who pay taxes and need help, not some foreign country that we don't even know where our money will be spent on... I'm really sad and depressed to see our own people struggle to make ends meet when our GOV just wants to fatten their pockets
the upcoming revolution is inevitable at this point
And don’t forget all the illegals getting housing, medical care, schooling, etc. all paid with our taxes. I’d much rather help our own people first. Let’s change our situation this November. Don’t believe the lies being told by the left. We can see & experience what’s happened these last 3 1/2 years.
Amen! Totally agree!
I agree. I lost count how many billions Biden gave Israel since Oct 7th last year. Those billions could be given to American citizens like this family for them to find a new home, rebuild their lives, assist with the cleanup etc.
If companies can't transport product safely then WE shouldn't have those products. END OF STORY
Hopefully they don’t get cancer later on in life
So the Railroad company basically hit the town with a Chemical Weapon.
Is no one mentioning the uncanny resemblance to Kathy Bates?
Omg yes
Yes.
💯
Relevance?
girl this is a sad video this is not the time
What has the state and federal govt done to help the victims of this disaster?
Why was the train going 56 moh than it was supposed to? Also, can someone explain this title to me because im seeing different comments for this title of the video
only people in the intelligence community knows the truth of the derailment its not because of faulty railroads but sabotage everything its starting to line up 3 trains in europe carrying chemicals have been derailed and linked to russian sabotage efforts
It was done on purpose!
So big corporations can buy the land for Pennie’s and build for profit
Anyone in charge of the railway or any management involved with the railway should be held responsible
That’s awful… it’s just awful…
I hope they’re getting compensated 😢
That same Ohio Governor was back a few days later saying the water was fine and drank what they said was the towns water. I live in Ohio. That guy is a wimp. What the hell is he doing to get the folks the compensation they deserve?
They were trying to make little Palestine look like the real Palestine.
Thanks to Trump's deregulation
@@andyroubik5760TRUMP 2024! 🇺🇸
@@jackgutzman1186🤡
@@andyroubik5760 This happened under the Biden administration and has nothing to do with deregulation. It was just an accident.
Well they purposely put fire to it which they shouldn't have and didn't needed to@@FadeintotheShadows
Praying for everyone 🙏
This is the Ohio version of Chernobyl…it’s been rough for the families..
Ya know, if this has misplaced people. I just priced out unfoldable homes on Amazon. Between 17,000 and 21,000 Why can't the railroad give people housing on land. The RR could have easily had a new town set up until this was resolved. No excuse these days. It wouldn't have taken a month with community help. Good job, Hancock. Now again u have screwed up by being reactive instead of proactive.
All aboard the toxic gossip train……
I knew we weren't done with this. I knew this had long-term consequences.
This is like America's Chernobyl.
3 mile island.
@@heathdoheny5133i grew up not far from there. that could have been a lot worse than it was, it wasn't great but it's well-contained. nothing like this disaster.
Over exaggeration
@@heathdoheny51333 mile island was much less severe compared to this
i wish dislikes would show up. this comment deserves it.
Very sad. 😢
Ur government or company will never care until the money runs out
I love how they say Palesteen instead of Palestine to dehumanize Palestinians even more.
If I had smelled that i would immediately figure out wind direction and gone rhe opposote way. Even if i had to camp out with family. And far away.
Losing a home because of mother nature is one thing, but losing your home because of negligence and having your land, air, and water contaminated by chemicals is terrible.
Been there before after losing it all to a toxic house fire. House Insurance company screwed us over big time. We got nothing. We were happy to escape with our life at the end of the day. It could have been a lot worse.
You have to sue somebody. You guys lived there all your lives and owned a house that was destroyed due to negligence
@@Xzy-rv2nu agreed as that is what logical people think but in canada they made it very hard to get justice.
@@Nikolak44_AJ_Epiccanadas justice system is so ass. even though it’s bad sometimes I’m a little grateful it’s not USA
I’m from Ohio, this is not even discussed, completely covered up. Our air quality supply js affected for a minimum of 30 years.
Maura todd “former east palestine resident “ am i the only one who saw that ❤
Yeah cause that was the name of the town:Palestine, Ohio
They shouldn’t be allowed to run those chemicals through populated areas …
They should be made to build new tracks around these towns. Maybe that sounds ridiculous, but it’s ridiculous to run trains through these towns that no one would have ever imagined would carry such toxic chemicals when the tracks were built!
This is absolutely terrifying. Look up the cartoon once upon a forest.1993 cartoon It will frighten you. They should have got these people to run away. As soon as it happened. They had no chance.
I remember that movie. It was a chemical truck that crashed and was leaking toxic fumes into the forest. It's a good movie. I haven't seen it in a long time.
Every resident should get money for this . Who knows how many health problems will come out of it . Since this event I live near Palestine Ohio and I know people that have got diagnosed with cancer .
Which direction is the smoke blowing?
did the fume do that to her hair??? wow, i would sue!
Will Norfolk Southern be liable for all of the damages? I doubt it, but they should even if they're shut down as a result.
Palestine "where you don't want to be"
Sure it was a "" derailment""
....because it was? a bearing went unlubricated which got too hot and melted causing a chain reaction that derailed the train. its not that deep.
If it's a matter of life and death why aren't you paying for the losses?
So they lit it on fire to stop an explosion….. wtf please explain how this makes sense
I'm assuming it's to control the explosion so that there is minimum damages
@@TheLalacream you don’t understand what im asking lol. Lighting an explosive chemical on fire should of instantly set it all off in a huge explosion. You never light an explosive chemical on fire! As far as im concerned they light it on fire so they didn’t have to clean it up because it would of cost 10’s of millions so instead they burned it all to make clean up cheaper short term.
@@brianrip2873did it explode when lit though? No.
@@SignalMan9292 thats exactly what im saying… does anyone read lol. The whole reason they lit it on fire was to stop an explosion. But it didnt explode when lit on fire there for it was not explosive too begin with so there was no point to light it on fire to begin with 😅
Must of not read it right. I just got done taking a lot of tests so that’s probably why
This is like Centralia PA
This is why we have gotten rid of all the train tracks in our small towns here in Florida. We hate trains with a passion.
Only tears thrive in Palestine.
"You need to leave"🤷♂️
Wow.
Wow 😲
Oh my goodness this is like a start to one of those zombie movies😮
US government when they allowed shipping companies to make trains miles long, double stacked, and operated by a single person which even has to do linking on their own :O
Rule # one dont live in or near Ohio
Rule number two, don't elect Trump to deregulate our railroads
I actually like Ohio. Moved here from Pa… it can be very nice depending on what area you’re in
@@lilnoodle02eh, nothing exciting really happens here. Ive lived here since I was born
@@SCRIPTURlENT nothing exciting happens anywhere though honestly 😂idk I do miss Pa sometimes though.
Joe Biden was no were to be found on this.
You're not aware that Ohio's governor turned Biden away?
I dont feel sorry for them. They voted for this.
What made me mad is you didn't go to the hospital >:( .
Sad, but when corporations own your government, not much you can do. Not like Americans have the drive or courage for change.
But the government told us there was nothing to worry about. They would never lie to us.
In all seriousness, people need to be held accountable and anyone affected by this should be greatly compensated.
I hate to be rude but when you live by a railroad track anything can happen. The railroad does not do it on purpose and it’s just the reality of it.
Having not fit and proper train cars they should be protected with extreme prejudice, owners and directors should go to prison
🫡god bless you all 😢
wow? what the hell is she laughing about ????
Dont be scared of the train be scared of the railroad who caused it
Not the railroads fault. Its the defect detector which didn’t recognize the overheating of the railcar.
@@CP_N503it’s absolutely the railroads fault, for not keeping up their right of way and inspecting rolling stock correctly.
It the PSR. This should have ended PSR. Especially because NS runs these incredibly long trains without DPUs so the amount of strain on the cars is increased.
@@SignalMan9292 The NS Trains usually have 2-4 locomotives for 140+ cars which is a bit concerning.
Indigenous people been speaking on all these problems but yall ain't listening
Shud up
Why was it carrying toxic chemical what is the toxic chemical for. it doesn't make any sense
The current administration has done nothing about this tragedy
Far reaching consequences 😢
Who’s going to answer for this?!
I live in Pittsburgh, this disaster has been under reported, very sad.
When will Ohio become a normal state, always something going on down there
most likely it wasn't the company's fault but the fact they decided to transport chemicals via train and not some sort of security transport is on their part the derailment of the train is unknown but most likely someone put rocks on the track and or railing wasn't stabilize
We all knew from day one this wasn't an accident.
Nah, it was an accident. A preventable accident caused out of sheer ignorance by the railroad.
@@F59PHI Sheer greed!
For Justice.
@@tanyabrowning5566 Tanya Browning of Western Society
Ahhhh yes, the black rock incident
I’m sure congress abolishing the chevron act has no part to play in this
We need to bring back eye for an eye laws
The train I remember was carrying ingredients for what they have used so how far was mustard gas. This was a terrible tragedy. I’m praying for the ones. We lost God to save us all.
"lost it all" umm how where you not compensated for that?
They were but the compensation they got sucks
😢❤❤❤
Hahahaha she has nightmares bout a train 😂😂
it’s a Dupont case all over again
I’m still convinced the lady being interviewed is Kathy Bates.