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UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – A transport condition derailed and sideswiped another on the banks of Puget Sound, sending whatever cars carrying a dangerous chemical careening soured the rails nearby the water, officials said.

Fourteen cars derailed Sat period and most were empty, but quaternary were tankers carrying sodium hydroxide, or lye, BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said. The chemical is utilised in industry and to set the pH levels of liquid but crapper be dangerous and cause breathing problems and burns.

No one was scraped in the derailment, which occurred most 8:30 p.m. 13 miles southward of metropolis in Pierce County, he said.

None of the chemical appears to have gone into the water, Melonas said.

Some of the derailed cars were lying nearby the get of Puget Sound but none went into the water, he said.

One of the cars had leaked most 50 gallons of the chemical and a dangerous materials gathering sealed it around 3 a.m., Melonas said.

Melonas said no evacuations had been ordered modify though there are whatever homes in the area.

"Not such of the chemical leaked and there were no vapors," he said. "A hazmat team observed that there was no open threat."

The happening occurred as a 109-car BNSF condition was way north from Portland, Ore., expiration an area known as the metropolis Narrows. The condition derailed and whatever of its cars struck a transport condition motion in the contestant direction.

"There was a sideswipe when cars that derailed struck cars on the adjacent track," he said.

Twelve cars on the northbound condition derailed and digit on the southbound.

The cause of the initial derailment is existence investigated.

Meanwhile, the digit parallel BNSF tracks streaming between metropolis and Seattle are closed and Melonas said it wasn't country when they would be cleared, restored and reopened.

He said 50 trains ingest those tracks daily and whatever would be rerouted.

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