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Poison gas spill evacuation after Louisiana train derailment
Authorities evacuated Walker Louisiana and ordered more than 3000 residents to flee as 42 of 101 cars derailed from an Illinois Central Gulf freight train near Livingston. A tetraethyl lead tanker exploded sending fire and toxic fumes over seven overturned vinyl chloride tankers raising fears of phosgene formation.
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Livingston
Walker
Louisiana
State Department of Natural Resources
Ronnie Jones
Louisiana State Police