Investigators in California have launched a probe to discover what happened to tons of explosive materials that went missing from a train.
According to KQED, around “60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as both fertilizer and a component in explosives, went missing as it was shipped by rail from Wyoming to California last month, prompting four separate investigations.”
The report noted further that “a railcar loaded with 30 tons of the chemical left Cheyenne, Wyoming, on April 12. The car was found to be empty after it arrived two weeks later at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert, according to a short incident report from the explosives firm that made the shipment.”
On May 10, the company Dyno Nobel submitted a report to the federal National Response Center (NRC). Last week, the report was included in the NRC’s California incident database, which is overseen by the state Office of Emergency