East Palestine mother Tracy Hager says her family and neighbors remain concerned about hazardous chemical exposures before evacuating due to the train derailment.
East Palestine, Ohio resident Tracy Hagar share her insight on the chemical release from Ohio train derailment on ‘The Bottom Line.’site, one East Palestine mother recounted her family’s "scary" evacuation experience and called out policymakers who have been slow to respond to the disaster." Tuesday evening. "And it's been a really scary thing for all of us. It was definitely something that we never thought about before.
Hager claimed that her family spent two days in their home surrounded by the potentially contaminated air before being evacuated by emergency responders. "They had trains running through town within hours after the evacuation was lifted. We really just didn't know what to think," Hager recalled. "We still had concerns because we had our friends, everybody here knows everybody, and we had people telling us that it still smelled, there was still fire burning, and then we had people telling us there was fish."
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s office had previously confirmed with Fox News Digital that detectable traces of"When you're thrown into a tragedy like that, you bring everybody else in around you and they're concerned for you, too," Hager said.
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