{"id":1219517,"date":"2023-04-20T04:22:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T09:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1219517"},"modified":"2023-04-21T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:58:32","slug":"longview-train-derailment-training-is-one-of-few-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1219517","title":{"rendered":"Longview train derailment training is one of few in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"LONGVIEW — There has been a rise in train derailments nationwide lately. To be ready to respond to similar cases like what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen the past few months, crews from across the U.S. are in East Texas training. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s run by the Longview Fire Department, which is one of just a few training courses in the nation to educate workers, according to our news partner KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Trinity Industries is one of the largest tank car manufacturers in the world, and they have two manufacturing plants in Longview\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6so that kind of puts us as a unique school,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said training section chief for the Longview Fire Department Andy Parker.<\/p>\n

This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s class has 30 students comprised of railroad workers, firefighters and first responders from East Texas and other parts of the country. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re specifically working with tank cars to learn how they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re put together, and how they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll react in a derailment. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When a train derails it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just going to be lined up on the tracks like it normally would be. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be scattered everywhere so you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got trip and fall dangers, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got crush dangers because something could move and that would be the end for you,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gene Giles, First Assistant Chief for Carthage Fire Department.<\/p>\n

The class takes place once a year, and this is the first year it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back in session since the COVID-19 pandemic halted the course. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our class started in 1998 and at that time there were only two classes like this in the United States,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Parker said.<\/p>\n

Longview\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fire marshal said he is pleased to know our crews here are prepared for the worst. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It should make the citizens proud to know that if it happens here that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re response ready,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Longview Fire Marshal Kevin May. Workers are expecting to be done with training by Thursday night, taking the skills they learned back home with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONGVIEW — There has been a rise in train derailments nationwide lately. To be ready to respond to similar cases like what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen the past few months, crews from across the U.S. are in East Texas training. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s run by the Longview Fire Department, which is one of just a few training courses in … Continue reading Longview train derailment training is one of few in the country<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1219520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/Trainderail-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Longview train derailment training is one of few in the country","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 01:33:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/Trainderail-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Longview train derailment training is one of few in the country","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219519,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219517\/revisions\/1219519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}