WATCH: Thirteen freight train cars and three locomotives derailed Monday in the San Bernardino County community of Colton.
"We were really scared if it would have went into the house or something. Thank god it wasn't that close," she said.Their backyard is only about 15 yards from the tracks.
Within minutes, Colton firefighters responded to the scene. They say the train was carrying lumber, and some of it caught on fire but it was quickly contained. "It's like something out of a movie, you know it's scary because it's so close to home," resident Zoey Montero said. The data the I-Team obtained shows the number of derailments increased 42% from 2019 to 2020 in San Bernardino County, while across the state – in all other counties -- the number of derailments actually decreased over that same time.
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