{"id":347494,"date":"2010-02-21T14:11:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T19:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f2647b6970c"},"modified":"2010-02-21T16:34:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T21:34:04","slug":"train-derails-near-bakersfield-homes-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/347494","title":{"rendered":"Train derails near Bakersfield; homes evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/br> Several homes were evacuated when a freight train derailed near Bakersfield and a tanker car carrying denatured alcohol burst into flames, authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\n

There were no injuries in the accident, which happened at about 9.30 p.m. Saturday at the entrance to a tunnel on the Tehachapi Loop south of Keene, the Kern County Fire Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Two tanker cars went off the tracks and one of them caught fire, producing a toxic cloud, said Engineer Justin Corley, a Fire Department spokesman. <\/p>\n

As a precaution, authorities evacuated homes within a mile of the incident. Fewer than 10 homes were affected, Corley said. A temporary shelter was set up at Tehachapi High School.<\/p>\n

When the fire did not burn out overnight, the evacuation order was extended Sunday to a 2-mile radius, Corley said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fire is burning some plastics in the train car and putting up\u00a0 a column of dark smoke,\u201d Corley said.\u00a0 \u201cOur crews are working with railroad crews in order to remove cars from the entrance to the tunnel, so they can extinguish the flames.\u201d<\/p>\n

Firefighters were also being assisted by the Kern County Environmental Health Agency, the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Department and the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n

— Alexandra Zavis<\/p>\n


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\u00a0 Several homes were evacuated when a freight train derailed near Bakersfield and a tanker car carrying denatured alcohol burst into flames, authorities said Sunday. There were no injuries in the accident, which happened at about 9.30 p.m. Saturday at the entrance to a tunnel on the Tehachapi Loop south of Keene, the Kern County […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}