The derailment and explosions outside Casselton ND on Dec. 30, 2013 prompted an evacuation.
If you’re curious to see profesional photographs online of oil trains, oil tanks, and recent accidents with fire balls and plumes of smoke as well as the wreckage afterwards, visit this website and scroll through. You can right click on any photograph and select “visit page” to read the accompanying news article. Crude-by-rail has been a lively story lately!
To give you a sense of the scale of the explosions, the tanks are 60 feet long and 10 feet tall. The fire and smoke sometimes extend 300 feet into the air and burn for a day or more! First responders evacuate nearby residents and keep people well away from the fires, but they do not try to put them out.
Click below to see the photo gallery.
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