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Residents evacuated² from the Ohio train derailment scene still haven't returned home

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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine about the derailment of a freight train carrying hazardous⁴ chemicals that forced the evacuation of at least 1,500 residents.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine joins us next. Governor, good morning.

MIKE DEWINE: Good morning. Good to be with you.

INSKEEP: Can you help us understand the timeline here? This train derailed on Friday, but it seems to have taken a couple of days of burning for it to develop into an emergency that required an evacuation.

DEWINE: Well, as things started going south Sunday night, I was on a conference call with our team, which I'd been doing. And, you know, they talked about the measurement that the railroad was doing with one particular car where the temperature was going up. They described chemicals in there as instable And the concern was a - what they described as a catastrophic blowup. And so, you know, I went there, to Columbiana County, and was on the phone yesterday probably for 2 to 3 hours with Governor Shapiro, as we talked through this whole situation and got the best advice we could. We had the Defense⁵ Department involved. Our Ohio National Guard did the modeling. And that was the real question. You know, what is the damage if you do nothing and it ends up blowing up versus⁶ going in, as your reporters already described, you know, a controlled release.

INSKEEP: Yeah.

DEWINE: And both of them - frankly⁷, neither one was a particularly, you know - an option that we liked. And so it was really a balancing - trying to balance those out. And the final decision was, you know, to evacuate¹ people in the area. We had to make sure we had the right modeling down, and we think we did. And, you know, that took place. We went back. When this started, we had evacuated people...

INSKEEP: Yeah.

DEWINE: ...From that - pretty much that whole area. We had to go back, now for the third time, yesterday and make sure that people - you know, people were out and then we moved forward.

INSKEEP: You mentioned modeling. Of course, you're talking about trying to calculate where the chemicals would go, what areas would be hazardous for people to be in. Do you feel the evacuation went well?

DEWINE: Well, look, I think it went well. But, you know, you always have to be concerned when you go in. People do not want to leave. And when we went in the second and third time, you know, we have no way of knowing if people are actually in the house. They just are not responding. Our local sheriff, other law enforcement, Ohio State Highway Patrol, really, you know, made a lot of noise, banged on the doors. And, you know, we were able to get several other people out. But, you know, there's some people who were still, you know, reluctant to get out. The modeling, you know, so far, has turned out to be good. We are monitoring - the Ohio EPA, U.S. EPA is monitoring the air outside the area where we told everybody to - you know, that was inside that area to leave. And so far, the air quality has been good.

INSKEEP: What questions do you have now, Governor, about the safety of the railroads that run through your state?

DEWINE: Oh, it brings up, you know, many, many questions. And I think after you see a catastrophic, you know, wreck⁸ like that with all the ramifications⁹ and, of course, knowing, you know, what they were carrying, I think you have to - you know, we have to go back and kind of reexamine the whole situation. I mean, the federal government, of course, is doing the investigation¹⁰. They'll let us know what - why that actually happened. But, yes, it certainly is a wake-up call. And, you know, we're going to have to take a hard look at all the railroads.

INSKEEP: Mike DeWine is the Republican governor of Ohio. Governor, thanks for joining us this morning.

DEWINE: Thank you very much.

1 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

2 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

3 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

4 hazardous   

adj.(有)危险的，冒险的；碰运气的

参考例句：

• These conditions are very hazardous for shipping.这些情况对航海非常不利。
• Everybody said that it was a hazardous investment.大家都说那是一次危险的投资。

5 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

6 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

7 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

8 wreck   

n.失事，遇难；沉船；vt.(船等)失事，遇难

参考例句：

• Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
• No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。

9 ramifications   

n.结果，后果( ramification的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• These changes are bound to have widespread social ramifications. 这些变化注定会造成许多难以预料的社会后果。
• What are the ramifications of our decision to join the union? 我们决定加入工会会引起哪些后果呢？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。