Episode #682: East Palestine Disaster
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver are joined by Stephen Szekely who is a Springfield firefighter and Mahoning County Hazmat Chief. Austin Gebhardt who Springfield firefighter and Lieutenant Hazmat, and Matthew Gebhardt who is the Fire Chief of Springfield.
The guys all live about 7 miles from the train derailment in East Palestine and they all responded the night of the train derailment.
Here, the guys look at some of the rumors that have swirled around this scandal... They tell of what issues led to the derailment, the communication problems amongst the different fire stations, the lack of any cleanup efforts after the chemical spill, and they tell of the bravery from the train conductor that spared Ohio from a much greater disaster.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go! |
| 0:30.0 | All right, here we go, three, two, one. |
| 0:45.0 | Boom and welcome to the BigHonker Podcast brought to you by our friends at GunDog Outdoors. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm Jeff Stanfield with the world famous Andy Schaver. |
| 0:52.8 | We say it all the time, an ounce of preparation, you need the field trauma kit you never know |
| 0:58.0 | into zashers, what a what a great segue for the topic, get you a field trauma kit, you |
| 1:03.9 | never know when disaster is going to strike, it's got all the things you need, stop bleeding, |
| 1:09.5 | stay warm, cool off, nothing for a trendy room, went though. |
| 1:14.2 | Nope, we don't have no trained room stuff with us today from Springfield Ohio, Springfield |
| 1:18.8 | Ohio, correct? |
| 1:19.8 | Yes. |
| 1:20.8 | Could be Illinois, or Missouri, could be like the Simpsons, you know, we did just went |
| 1:25.8 | to Springfield, and nobody's quite knows, Austin and Steve with their fire department. |
| 1:31.4 | How far you guys from the epicenter of where all this where the trying to rum, it was about |
| 1:37.4 | seven, eight miles. |
| 1:38.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.8 | Holy shit. |
| 1:41.4 | What was it like that day? |
| 1:44.2 | I mean, it was there a big rumble, did we see it being plowed in the in the sky? |
| 1:49.0 | Like what? |
| 1:50.0 | Walk us through what happened? |
| 1:52.1 | Actually, I just got home and I was, I'm an old man, so I was getting ready for bed. |
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