ANACORTES, Wash. — Crews removed contaminated soil from the Swinomish Reservation in Skagit County where two locomotives derailed and spilled an estimated 3,100 gallons of diesel fuel on a berm near a bay just after midnight Thursday.
The Washington State Department of Ecology tweeted at 6 a.m. that the ecology and the Marine Spill Response Corporation were responding to the scene on the Swinomish Reservation in Anacortes.
The spill occurred on a berm, and most of the diesel leaks on the land side, according to the Washington State Department of Ecology. The train, which officials said was en route to Burlington, belonged to BNSF Railway, a North American freight railroad company.
“It was just shocking,” stated Cyndi Remming. She and her husband are camped in their RV in a lot near the derailment. “I woke up my husband. I was like, ‘There’s a train derailment!’ He’s like, ‘No there’s not,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, get out of bed, there’s a train!’”
