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Aerial photos show how much worse West Virginia train derailment could have been

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A train carrying crude oil derailed in West Virginia on Monday, destroying a home and igniting a fireball on the banks of a Kanawha River tributary, after 27 of 109 tanker cars plunged from the tracks. It triggered evacuations in the local community, as well as a multi-day tap water ban


On Friday, four days after the crash, all fires burning at the site were finally extinguished, and some of those evacuated have begun to return home.



Now, aerial images from the crash site show the scale of the devastation, as well as the burn scar from the large explosion, highlighting just how much worse it could have been Read more...


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