(The Associated Press circulated the following article on September 13.)
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Hazardous material teams determined that no liquefied petroleum gas leaked when two tankers and a flat rail car jumped the tracks Monday in Reno County.
Deputy Fire Chief Mike Patterson said the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train had just made a stop to pick up several tanker cars filled with gas when the accident happened Monday afternoon outside South Hutchinson, which has about 2,500 residents and is located in south-central Kansas.
No one was injured.
BNSF officials were headed to the scene of the derailment Monday evening, and a reason for the derailment wasn’t given.
The derailment was the third in less than a month in the Reno County. Late last month, 40 to 50 homes were evacuated when two tanker cars carrying a highly flammable liquid derailed in South Hutchinson. One of the tankers tipped, spilling 30,000 gallons of ethanol into a nearby water-filled ditch.