Cleanup, Air Monitoring Underway at Kentucky Train Derailment Site

Cleanup, Air Monitoring Underway at Kentucky Train Derailment Site
People help arrange cots at Rockcastle Middle School, being used as an evacuation center, in Mt Vernon, Ky., on Nov. 22, 2023. WTVQ via AP
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LIVINGSTON, Ky.—Kentucky officials and crews with rail operator CSX were working Friday to remove train cars and spilled material at the site of a derailment that sparked a chemical fire earlier in the week and prompted home evacuations in a nearby small town.

State officials said Friday they were monitoring the air for traces of hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide, but there had been no detection of those substances at the derailment site or the nearby town of Livingston since Thursday morning. The fire was extinguished at the site just after noon on Thursday.