Residents who live near the Pennsylvania-Ohio border close to this month’s catastrophic train derailment told lawmakers horror stories Thursday of skin rashes, headaches, sick animals and an overwhelming sense of helplessness.
“The whole sky was black,” Darlington, Pennsylvania, resident Amanda Kemmer told a state Senate committee hearing in Beaver County, recalling the release of toxic chemicals that followed the derailment. “And then you get this chemical smell in the house.”
Ultimately, said Ms. Kemmer, a mother of four, “everyone had a headache and didn’t feel well and was sick to their stomach.”
