UPDATE: Derailment causes evacuations in Newton Falls

NEWTON FALLS — A CSX train carrying ammonia and chlorine was heading west when it derailed from the railroad tracks near North Center Street in Newton Falls at about 6:45 a.m. today.

Residents living within a 500-foot radius of the derailment - including workers at the Cadle Co. – were evacuated and taken to the Newton Falls Community Center. No injuries have been reported.

Fourteen cars left the tracks in the area of Center Street in the downtown.

At about noon, Don Waldron, chief of the Trumbull County Hazmat Bureau, said authorities had determined that no dangerous chemicals had leaked and that an all-clear would be sounded and people would likely be allowed to return to their homes by this afternoon.

Some fuel appears to be leaking from a wooden tower struck by a derailed car and officials say that is being cleaned up now, authorities said.

"It was loud. It sounded like a earthquake," said Matthew Neiheisel, of Jay Street who heard the derailment. "I was like, 'What the heck was that?' and I went back to bed."

"The trains always make noise, but that was a little louder than normal," he added.

The Ohio Department of Transportation has announced that the intersection of state Route 534 and state Route 5 in Trumbull County and state Route 534 northbound of I-76 in Mahoning County has been closed due to the derailment and advised that motorists should avoid the area.

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