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TCI West Ghent Chemical Fire Coverage Collage (Audio)
Aug 04, 2012
Produced by Tom Roe with reports from Jess Puglisi, Philip Grant, Shannekia McIntosh, Lynn Sloneker, and others.
Late Wed., Aug. 1 a fire consumed the TCI plant that housed toxic chemicals in Ghent, and fire and explosions continued through the night. Philip Grant interviews Jean Paul of Roxbury Farms in Kinderhook; David O. Carpenter, Professor at Univ. of Albany with speciality in health effects of environmental contaminants; Philmont resident Jennifer Hubbard asks questions; Ghent resident Jeffrey Lependorf describes the explosions; and the Columbia County Emergency Management team trys to explain what the consequences are. And it is all mixed with music from John Cale and Terry Riley, R.E.M., Kansas, Bob Dylan, and others. Repeated at 7 p.m.