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Sunday, July 20, 2008
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Lafayette Train Derailment
| 2008-05-21 | |
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| LAFAYETTE — Final soil and air testing at the site of Saturday’s train derailment in northwest Lafayette could be complete today, said a spokesman for rail company Burlinton Northern Sante Fe. | |
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| LAFAYETTE — The City-Parish Council on Tuesday approved an emergency $200,000 to pay for police and firefighter overtime and other expenses related to the train derailment and evacuation during the weekend. | |
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| 2008-05-20 | |
| LAFAYETTE — Cleanup crews Monday began scraping away contaminated soil at the site of Saturday’s train derailment while lawsuits over the incident quickly mounted. Residents were allowed to return home Sunday after police lifted the evacuation for a 1-mile radius around the site of the derailment at the Ambassador Caffery Parkway overpass, where an overturned rail car leaked about 10,000 gallons of hydrochloric acid. | |
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| 2008-05-19 | |
| LAFAYETTE — Louisiana State Police sounded the all-clear Sunday for about 3,000 northwest Lafayette residents within 1 mile of a Saturday train derailment at the Ambassador Caffery Parkway overpass to return to their homes. Stephen Lafargue, a spokesman for State Police, said Sunday evening that the evacuation area had been rolled back from the original 1-mile radius around the derailment to 1,000 feet. He said that zone does not include any homes, and only a few businesses. | |
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| 2008-05-18 | |
| LAFAYETTE — As of 6:30 p.m. Louisiana State Poline in conjunction with local law enforcement and public safety agencies on the ground reduced the evacuation radius around clean up site to 1000 feet. Residents within the old radius and outside of 1000 feet from the derailment and spill site will be allowed to return home at this time. State Police consider the clean up process ongoing as it continues through the night. | |
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