FEMA Deploys Team to Ohio Two Weeks After Chemical Disaster
Perhaps the optics of sending massive aid to Turkish earthquake victims and paying for Ukrainian pensions while Americans in Ohio suffer from chemical fallout wasn’t as good as originally thought
In my last update on the chemical release disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, I noted that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) declined to send aid to the state. Basically, Gov. Mike DeWine was told that it wasn’t the agency’s normal purview, which usually is related to assisting after natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes.
Since that report, the agency has rethought its initial stance.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is deploying federal assistance to Ohio now more than two weeks after the toxic Norfolk Southern train derailment that threatened the village of East Palestine.
Gov. Mike DeWine said the move came following further discussions with the agency.
In a joint statement on Friday, the governor and FEMA Regional Administrator Thomas Sivak said FEMA and Ohio had been in “constant contact” regarding emergency operations in the community.
“U.S. EPA and Ohio EPA have been working together since day one,” they said. “Tomorrow, FEMA will supplement federal efforts by deploying a Senior Response Official along with a Regional Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT) to support ongoing operations, including incident coordination and ongoing assessments of potential long term recovery needs.”
Perhaps the optics of sending massive aid to Turkish earthquake victims and paying for Ukrainian pensions while Americans in Ohio suffer from chemical fallout wasn’t as good as initially thought.
No aid for the people they’re poisoning in Ohio…but they can send $100 million to Turkey and Syria and $100 billion to Ukraine… https://t.co/P2XthMKc09
— Woz (@accordingtowoz) February 19, 2023
Meanwhile, concerns are growing about the spread of contamination from the East Palestine chemical cloud unleashed two weeks ago. The Northern Kentucky Water District closed its Ohio River intake as a precautionary measure.
In the release, NKWD said that it is in close contact with ORSANCO and its partners to track the chemical butyl acrylate that was detected at low levels in the Ohio River far upstream of Greater Cincinnati water supply intakes.
While samples upstream in the Ohio River have been undetectable for chemicals related to the train derailment or detected at very low levels, NKWD, in concert with GCWW, will shut down its Ohio River intakes as a precautionary measure.
NKWD has plans in place to ensure the drinking water remains safe.
In addition to the continuous monitoring conducted by ORSANCO and GCWW, NKWD will be collecting additional samples over the next few days for analysis.
NKWD’s state-of-the art treatment processes − powdered activated carbon in addition to granular activated carbon (GAC) − will also serve as a protective treatment barrier.
Clearly, Ukraine is more of a priority for Biden…as he heads to Poland to commemorate the first anniversary of the start of the Ukraine-Russia War. However, President Donald Trump is heading to East Palestine to support the community on Wednesday, and he will likely highlight his America First agenda.
Trump’s confirmation for his visit comes after the White House announced on Friday that there are no plans for Biden to visit the village, where a toxic train derailment occurred on Feb. 3. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre noted that Biden’s immediate schedule is currently packed with his trip to Poland to mark the beginning of the war in Ukraine one year ago.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) inspectors are continuing their investigation and have identified an overheated wheel bearing on one of the cars as a possible cause of the disaster.
The NTSB has identified the initial rail car to blame for the incident, and said in a statement on Tuesday that a video from a residence showed the car’s wheel bearing was “in the final stage of overheat failure moments before the derailment.” Investigators said that they collected the wheel set from the railcar as well as the wheel bearing to be examined by engineers from NTSB Materials Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
The NTSB said that the tank cars were “currently” being decontaminated, and that inspectors will return once that process is complete to conduct a “thorough” investigation of the cars. They are still investigating the exact cause of the derailment using documentation, event recorder data and interviews, and they expect to publish a preliminary report in two weeks.
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Clearly, we need someone else in charge, and I don’t mean Harris.
We have an utter traitor as a president. I don’t think there’s any argument about that anymore. This is Obama’s third term.
While samples upstream in the Ohio River have been undetectable for chemicals related to the train derailment or detected at very low levels, NKWD, in concert with GCWW, will shut down its Ohio River intakes as a precautionary measure
NKWD has plans in place to ensure the drinking water remains safe.
NKWD’s state-of-the art treatment processes − powdered activated carbon in addition to granular activated carbon (GAC) − will also serve as a protective treatment barrier.
And people do realize that existing water treatments used in existing water treatment facilities does not remove chemicals such as vinyl chloride or their combustion products and simply putting in activated charcoal filters isn’t likely to be effective either, right?
Right!
Most people just know they work the handle and tap water comes out. The broad public usually doesn’t think about how or what is done outside their view.
They hate us.
Yes they do
Tie a rope in a tree. The regime would be there before you got off the ladder. It’s always about existential BS with these people. If these clowns cared about the enviro as they claim things would already be in motion.
We had 3 years of greatness in between the destruction of America since 2008….
Only way back is President Trump 2024
You assume a real election in 2024 where votes by actual citizens, legally registered and resident where they are registered, and not a count of “ballots’ with no ties to real existence?
Subotai Bahadur
Trump is organizing a massive ballot harvesting effort. It worked in CA where
Republican candidates did it. If those are the rules, then Republicans just have to get better at it than the Dems. Lots of Republican votes are not being harvested so their is gold in them thar hills.
Money sent to Ohio will be spent on helping people who need help, while hundreds of billions of US tax dollars (part of which is contributed by the residents of Palestine) sent to Ukraine is laundered to governments and politicians world wide.
Palestine is a largely white population in a state won by Trump and thanks to Trump announcing he will be visiting, not only FEMA but the EPA has buckled under. This the “E” part of ESG where resources are allocated on the basis of racial “equity”. I also believe that is the reason they decided to order a “controlled burn” of the chemicals that were not already burned which greatly increased the dissemination of poison gases and chemicals.
It is becoming impossible to ignore the likelihood that the globalists’ government (which used to be ours) is actively trying to kill us off beginning with white people in general and straight white men specifically.
I live in the area. The contolled burn was done to avoid the much, much worse scenario of the tanks cooking themselves off and sending both their contents and shrapnel all over town, potentially blowing the gas station 100′ away as well.
From what I’ve heard from one EP native, at least some there aren’t especially keen on the Fed Gov/Biden admin coming in to screw things up.
Is this going to be an actual Incident Response Team or a PR team dispatched to cover things up?
That the governor had to basically beg for federal assistance is disgusting.
Key to this is the fact that after weeks of refusing the render aid to Ohio and the town of East Palestine in Ohio in dealing with environmental disaster, FEMA suddenly reversed itself mere hours after Donald Trump announced that he would be going to East Palestine.
Mind you, I don’t expect FEMA, the EPA, or the Federal government to actually render help, because these are mere Americans who mostly vote Republican; but they could not let Trump actually show that he cares more for those people than the government does even if it is true.
Subotai Bahadur
All federal benefits to the residents will have to be run through the DEI guidelines to determine who is most deserving
FEMA wants to be the sole source of official solid misinformation that we can rely on!
If this accident had occurred in an urban community and/or a community predominantly “of color,” we’d see the vile Dumb-o-crats responding with compassion and alacrity. But, the victims and residents here possess the wrong skin pigmentation and the wrong political loyalties. Hence, the federal response from dotard-marionette, Biden, on down, is transparently one of total indifference and callousness.