EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) —
Residents of an eastern Ohio village are learning more about the fiery wreck of a Norfolk Southern freight train last year that derailed their lives as another hearing gets underway, with the National Transportation Safety Board set to discuss the ongoing investigation and issue recommendations for averting future disasters.
“On behalf of the entire agency I want to recognize the significant impact this derailment has had,” NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy Homendy said at the beginning of Tuesday’s hearing. She said some people have tried to minimize the wide-reaching effects of last year’s derailment because there were no deaths, but “the absence of fatality or injury
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