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Hmm. How about that. Might be a bigger deal then originally thought.

Many people knew it was a bigger deal, with a casual glance at the chemicals involved. It has been a typical snowjob because the media likes the people in charge.

Or the investigators need to go closer to the disaster than the public?

The article says the people that got sick were only going door to door to interview people in the town...

If you clear folks to return to their homes they'll be passing by that site every days.

Yes - most folks probably aren't going to shove their noses in the train wreck but the people with the weakest resistance to poisons (kids) absolutely will be all over the site. If adults are getting significant side effects then children will likely have very severe reactions.

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