Kentucky derailment fire that prompted town to evacuate is out, official says

This image provided by WTVQ and taken from video shows people sitting at a table at Rockcastle Middle School, an evacuation center in Mt. Vernon, Ky., on Wednesday. People were evacuated after a CSX train derailed near Livingston, a town of about 200 people in Rockcastle County. CSX says two of the 16 cars that derailed carried molten sulfur, which caught fire after the cars were breached.

Evacuees were spending Thanksgiving away from home after a CSX train derailed, catching fire and spilling chemicals near Livingston, a remote town with about 200 people.

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