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*Update** Slow leak from one car in train derailment in NW Iowa

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August 1st, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) No one was hurt in the derailment of a B-N-S-F train in northwest Iowa near Hull on Wednesday night. The Sioux County Sheriff’s Office says approximately 25 cars of the 83-car train derailed. The cars were carrying refrigerated meat, tank, freight, rock, and denatured alcohol products. Sheriff’s Captain Jamie Van Voorst says the car carrying the denatured alcohol did have a very slow leak, but it was being contained as of early Thursday morning.

Van Voorst says, “There’s not an immediate danger but they don’t want to have people driving through, causing any fire or spark, anything like that, so the crews can get in there and be uninterrupted.” He says it’s too early to know the cause of the derailment and he urges people to stay away from the area as crews work to complete the investigation. Last June, a train derailed on that same track just a few miles away.