Derailed Tanker Burns in Ky. With No End in Sight

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EPA emergency coordinator says hazmat incident "is as bad as it gets."

Billy Ash, Mayor of West Point updates residents of West Point, Ky., living within a mile-and-a-half radius of the site of a train derailment as they wait at a Red Cross shelter Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 at the Muldraugh Elementary School in Muldraugh, Ky. A Paducah & Louisville Railway train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed just after 6 a.m. EDT Monday, A leak of a potentially explosive material was contained, but authorities say three workers were severely burned in a fire that erupted while contractors were removing debris from the train today in southwest Louisville, Kentucky.

(AP Photo/Brian Bohannon)

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