Six months later, Frank McCracken, who lives a stone’s throw from the derailment site, showed a few things that have changed since the last time News 5’s DaLaun Dillard visited him back in February.
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — It’s tough to wrap your mind around losing your sense of normalcy in an instant, but the reality is, residing in abnormality is Frank McCracken’s reality in the months after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed just outside his home in East Palestine.
“They just put this up a week or two ago,” McCracken said, pointing to a paved-over lot that was once green space. “Yeah, it was all grass.” We don’t just report the initial story—we follow through to its conclusion. Read and watch our previous reporting on this story below and see more stories that we've followed through on here.That level of discomfort is exacerbated for Nichole Chestnut, who had just moved to East Palestine barely 48 hours before the derailment.
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