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This report declares that the railroad company itself started the blaze.

“Norfolk Southern discharged more cancer-causing Vinyl Chloride into the environment in the course of a week than all industrial emitters combined did in the course of a year,” the suit alleges, claiming that the company chose to burn the vinyl chloride, turning it into a highly toxic gas, rather than disposing of it safely.

What is bizarre to me is that Norfolk Southern started burning the chemicals three days after the derailment.