'Dangerous' gas leak forces immediate evacuations in Ohio

(NewsNation) —A “dangerous” chemic leak rapidly spewing from a bid tanker car has forced contiguous exigency evacuations for residents successful Cleves, Ohio, 16 miles westbound of Cincinnati. 

The Hamilton County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency warned radical successful Cleves and Whitewater Township to “leave the country immediately” owed to a “dangerous chemic leak" successful an alert, adding that they person opened a nationalist structure for those fleeing.

Video acquired by NewsNation shows achromatic fumes pumping retired of a stalled tanker car.

Several occurrence trucks were seen successful the country spraying h2o connected a tanker car, according to WCPO.

Cleves sits connected the Ohio borderline with Indiana and has a colonisation of astir 3,000 people.

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