Monday, April 13, 2015

10 RAILCARS OVERTURN IN BNSF TRAIN DERAILMENT ON SIERRA MADRE IN COLORADO SPRINGS. DRY AMMONIA FERTILIZER SPILLED.







APRIL 13, 2015

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO

UPDATE 2:15 a.m.:  Colorado Springs Fire Department says 10 cars overturned in the derailment.  The ammonia fertilizer in its current form is stable. No contamination to the water supply or soil was detected.  A clean-up crew will begin work at 3:30 a.m. and should take four to six hours to complete.  No evacuations were necessary during the incident; however, 70 residents received emergency notifications to remain indoors.  Some power lines were reportedly knocked down, but there were no power outages reported by Colorado Springs Utilities.  

Watch News5 Today beginning at 4:30 a.m. for updated information regarding the clean-up effort.  

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UPDATE 11:10pm: BNSF reports the train cars are carrying raw ammonia fertilizer. Colorado Springs Fire Department said there are no injuries reported and no evacuations yet. 

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Original story:

Colorado Springs Police and Fire crews are responding to a train derailment with train fire that happened around 10:30 Sunday night in the area of Baltic St and the 900 block of S. Sierra Madre.
Multiple train cars are flipped over and streets are Sierra Madre, Baltic and Conejos streets are all closed due to the accident. It is not known if there are injuries or what caused the crash.

There are unconfirmed reports that the train cars were carrying ammonia, and that power lines are down.  Hazmat is on scene.
Source: http://www.koaa.com