- Video of the fiery axel was captured when the train passed through a hot box detector, which checks the axle temperature for overheating, in Salem, Ohio, more than an hour before it arrived in East Palestine, Ohio, where the derailment occurred.
- The train crew had received an alert shortly before the Feb. 3 derailment, but it is unclear when the alert came through.
- Security cameras at two Salem industrial plants captured the axle blazing as it passed.
- The wreckage remained on fire for several days after the derailment, with several train cars carrying the toxic and potentially explosive chemical vinyl chloride so dangerous that officials created a one-mile evacuation zone.
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Derailed Train Turned Fiery HAZMAT Site First Rolled 20 Miles On Fiery Axle
The freight train that derailed earlier this month near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and turned into a smoldering, days-long HAZMAT situation traveled at least 20 miles beforehand with an axle that appeared to be on fire.
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