During the Rotary Club of Elkton’s weekly meeting on Wednesday afternoon, Todd County Emergency Management Director Ash Groves and Judge-Executive Todd Mansfield provided a candid, behind-the-scenes account of the December 30th CSX train derailment near Trenton.
According to Groves, the first calls reporting the derailment came in at 6:25 AM, prompting crews to rush to the scene without knowing the full extent of the situation.
Groves explained that the shelter-in-place order was issued immediately after molten sulfur was confirmed to be leaking from one of the cars…