Authorities will hold a press conference Sunday to discuss their investigation into a central Illinois truck crash that killed five people Saturday.
John O'Connor and Colleen SlevinTwo kids are among five people dead after a semi crash, which caused an anhydrous ammonia leak and prompted a Teutopolis evacuation.Authorities resumed their investigation Sunday of a central Illinois truck crash that killed five people, injured five others and prompted an evacuation for hundreds of residents after a toxic chemical leak.
Emergency crews worked overnight after the accident on Friday trying to control the plume from the leak and struggled to get near the crash site. The accident caused "a large plume, cloud of anhydrous ammonia on the roadway that caused terribly dangerous air conditions in the northeast area of Teutopolis," Kuhns said. "Because of these conditions, the emergency responders had to wait. They had to mitigate the conditions before they could really get to work on it, and it was a fairly large area.
"'T-Town' is a tight-knit community," Hartke said. "Many people have sons and daughters, aunts and uncles within five or six miles of town." And in 2002, a train derailment released anhydrous ammonia in Minot, North Dakota, killing one man, and hundreds of other people reported injuries including burns and breathing problems.
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