THE SIGNAL
Evacuations and road closures are in place in an Ohio community just west of Cincinnati after a railroad car began leaking styrene on Tuesday.
The leak was first spotted Tuesday at about 1 p.m. in a rail yard in Cleves, according to WCPO-TV.
Initially, an order to keep windows closed and avoid going outside was issued, but it was followed by an order to evacuate homes within a half-mile of the incident.
The leak has since stopped, officials said.
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Hamilton County spokesperson Bridget Doherty said about 210 homes were evacuated, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
“We don’t yet know the specifics of how this happened,” Tom Ciuba, a representative of the Central Railroad of Indiana, which owns the yard where the car was leaking, said.
“Right now we’re focused on mitigating t …