(Source: Associated Press, August 8, 2013)
LAWTELL, La. — Authorities opened U.S. Highway 190 in St. Landry Parish in both directions Thursday and allowed an estimated 150 people to return to homes and businesses in an area that was evacuated after a weekend train derailment. Twenty-six cars of a Union Pacific train derailed Sunday near Lawtell, 60 miles west of Baton Rouge. Fourteen had materials considered hazardous, including two with highly toxic vinyl chloride. Those two cars did not leak, a Department of Environmental Quality official said. They were unloaded and removed from the site earlier in the week, state police said. There was leakage from some of the other cars, which were carrying lubricating oil, sodium hydroxide and dodecenol, an alcohol used in a variety of products.
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