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Oregon residents return home following oil train derailment

SEATTLE (AP) — Dozens of residents of a Columbia River town in northern Oregon have been given the all clear to return home, after crews made progress in repairing damage caused by the derailment of an oil train that sparked a fire. About a hundred people — a quarter of Mosier’s population — were evacuated Friday after several cars carrying the volatile oil went off the tracks. But officials said late Sunday night that the Wasco County Sheriff’s office lifted the evacuation order, after progress was made in cleaning up the derailment and restoring essential services, including a waste water treatment plant. A statement by incident spokeswoman Judy Smith of the U.S.

 

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