Train derailment causes home evacuations in Lyon County – 9
A train derailed Sunday morning near Lester, IA on its way from Sioux City to Wilmer, MN. One of the 25 carts that was derailed contained LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) which is extremely flammable. Because of this everyone in a one mile radius was evacuated. This story is newsworthy because it happened in Iowa. It wasn’t very close to Sioux City, but the train started out in Sioux City which catches a persons attention. This is also somewhat rare and possibly dangerous which makes people more interested. Since we are dealing with broadcast right now I also thought it was interesting to compare the written story to how they said it on the news. In this case they were extremely similar. The lead was split between the two anchors which kind of surprised me. I think it made me pay more attention to what they were saying but I figured they would try to keep it as simple as possible and not break up sentences between the anchors.
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