Ohio’s Toxic Train Derailment: Personal Stories From The “Red Zone"
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
"We just want to know the truth, and we want to know if our family is safe," explains Heather Beresford, one of four mothers who joined SmartHER News for a wide-ranging conversation from those who experienced the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, first hand.
You'll hear from residents Heather, Misti, Kari, and Jess about their experiences from the night of the train derailment onwards — from scary moments, quick evacuations, and lingering concerns.
Now, more than two weeks since the accident, all four have returned home but still have questions about the greater impact the derailment might continue to have on themselves, their families and their community at large.
It’s a truly eye-opening conversation and provides some SmartHER lessons about what to consider in the event of a major emergency in your own hometown.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to Smarter News. I'm Jenna and I am really excited about the opportunity we have for today. |
| 0:11.7 | A first of its kind and smarter news, in fact, where we get to tackle a news story that has received so much attention around the country and speak to people who actually |
| 0:21.8 | experienced this firsthand, not only as a community, but as a group of friends and as individuals. |
| 0:29.1 | What we're going to be talking about today is the train derailment that happened in early February |
| 0:33.7 | in East Palestine, Ohio, a village of just under 5,000 people, a really tight-knit |
| 0:40.2 | community as you're going to hear, a community where you can actually text your friends and get |
| 0:44.0 | them all together for an interview in the middle of the day, which I've really appreciated |
| 0:49.0 | from our guests that are with us. So what we're going to do is just kind of talk through |
| 0:53.8 | what happened |
| 0:55.2 | during this train derailment. What was the experience like on the ground? And then also here, |
| 1:00.6 | what have the last several weeks been like? Because this is a new story that, yes, we got a headline. |
| 1:05.6 | Yes, there was some attention at the beginning. But it hasn't gone away and it hasn't gone away |
| 1:10.0 | completely because |
| 1:11.4 | there's a feeling right or wrong that not everyone has all the information. And so we're going to |
| 1:16.6 | talk a little bit more about that. So I want to introduce our guest today. They are friends in real |
| 1:21.1 | life, not just as part of a smarter news interview, which is fun. Their kids know each other. |
| 1:25.6 | They get together. They have friendships that go back |
| 1:28.8 | many, many years, as you'll hear. So Misty Allison is joining us. She has two kiddos, and she lives |
| 1:35.4 | just about a mile from the trained derailment site. Heather Beresford is a nurse by training. We're |
| 1:41.9 | going to talk to her a little bit about that. She has a seven-year-old |
| 1:44.9 | daughter that actually goes to school with Misty's son. She lives inside what's called the red zone. |
| 1:51.2 | The red zone is the area closest to the train derailment where that evacuation order went into |
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