(Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 14, 2015)
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — While railroads have long carried hazardous materials through congested urban areas, cities are now scrambling to formulate emergency plans and to train firefighters amid the latest safety threat: a fifty-fold increase in crude shipments that critics say has put millions of people living or working near the tracks at heightened risk of derailment, fire and explosion.
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