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PHILADELPHIA - One person is dead, and another four injured, after two cars collided in Philadelphia's Mayfair section early Monday morning.Officials say the collision was a wrong-way crash that unfolded on the 2700 block of Levick Street around 2:40 a.m.Five people were transported to local hospitals, where one was later pronounced dead. MORE HEADLINES:Four other people are said to be injured, however their conditions are not known at this time.Officials confirm that all the victims are adults, but their ages and identities have yet to be released.Portions of Levick Street were closed following the deadly crash, and were still not open as of 5 a.m.

PHILADELPHIA - President’s Day will be mild, with a lot of cloud cover and temperatures rising quickly - above 60 degrees!Morning temperatures begin in the 30s and 40s, but will reach a high of 62 degrees this afternoon.A few spotty showers may make their way through the region in the afternoon and evening, but nothing to spoil most of the day.Late Monday night and into the overnight into Tuesday, more rain will cross the area, but that will clear out early Tuesday morning.FOX 29's Sue Serio says to get ready for ups and downs all week long, as temperatures start to drop Tuesday and Wednesday, shoot up to 70 on Thursday, then drop back down to 35 degrees on Saturday!>> Download the FOX 29 Weather Authority app for alerts in your area_______SEVEN-DAY FORECASTMONDAY: President's Day. High: 62, Low: 46TUESDAY: Passing shower. High: 57, Low: 43WEDNESDAY: Afternoon showers. High: 45, Low: 34THURSDAY: Morning showers. High: 71, Low: 40FRIDAY: Windy and chilly. High: 48, Low: 45SATURDAY: Snow then rain. High: 35. Low: 26SUNDAY: Partly sunny. High: 50, Low: 33

NORTH PHILADELPHIA - Temple University’s Vice President for Public Safety released a statement Sunday, regarding the shooting death of Officer Fitzgerald, reading, in part:"Officer Fitzgerald gave his life to selflessly serve and defend this community. The courage and bravery he displayed highlights the day-to-day sacrifice made by our Temple University police officers to keep our community safe.

EAST GERMANTOWN - A 54-year-old man is in critical condition after someone shot him in the face inside an East Germantown grocery store.According to authorities, 14th District officers were called to the Save A Lot on the 6300 block of Chew Avenue Sunday night, just before 6:30, on the report of a shooting.Someone inside the store shot the 54-year-old man in the face, officials said.MORE HEADLINES:Police rushed the man to Einstein Medical Center where he was placed in critical condition.There were no other details regarding other customers or injuries. There were no details about a suspect.___Tips can be submitted by calling 215-686-TIPS (8477) or texting PPD TIP (773847).

Presidents Day 2023, consider soaking up some fun and interesting presidential facts.Throughout our nation's history, there have been quite a number of memorable leaders at the helm. This Presidents Day, take a look at interesting numerical info about America's leaders.Feb. 22, 1732 – Presidents Day takes place on Feb.

Jimmy Carter ATLANTA - People from all over the world are leaving kind notes and sharing their favorite photos of the 39th U.S. president, Jimmy Carter.In the wake of the announcement that Carter opted to spend the rest of his life at home receiving hospice care, surrounded by his loved ones, The Carter Center unveiled a new way for supporters to send messages of peace and comfort to him and his family."President Carter, you inspire Americans and citizens of the world to live a life of good work, loving relationships, and service to others. You will continue to inspire us and make a difference long after you leave this earth.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - A trip through a historic 6,000-acre spaceport on Florida’s east coast will likely net visitors sights of old rockets, the Vehicle Assembly Building and launch sites. Yet alongside all the human innovations, the Kennedy Space Center has become known for its refuge for thousands of animals including America’s national bird.Every year, the space agency reports American bald eagles take residence at the center and nearby Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.NASA said there are on average 11 active nests at the space center each year but a nest that gained fame for its prominence near the Vehicle Assembly Building since 1973 was no longer used by the migratory birds.Biologists believe severe storms in 2021, and an invasion of pine bark beetles badly damaged the nest and weakened the tree, forcing a pair of eagles to start building a new nest.

A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) this week stopped a passenger with an assault rifle and 163 rounds of ammunition from being carried onto a plane headed to Houston. (Cr NEW ORLEANS - An officer with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) stopped a passenger last week with an assault rifle and 163 rounds of ammunition, the agency said. Officials said the 52-year-old passenger would've carried the items onboard a plane at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) heading to Houston. A deputy with  Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office arrived and confiscated the Palmetto PA-15 Multi AR firearm loaded with 30 rounds of .300 caliber ammunition.

HOLMESBURG - Philadelphia police are investigating after a pipe bomb was reportedly discovered behind a church in Holmesburg.Philadelphia police sources tell FOX 29 an 18-inch pipe bomb was found Sunday behind St.

Facebook and Instagram users pay for a verified account.Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Verified on his social media accounts Sunday. Testing will begin in New Zealand and Australia this week and will roll out to other countries soon, he said.For $11.99 per month on the web or $14.99 per month on Apple and Android operating systems, Meta will use a government identification to verify a user’s account and give the account a blue badge.

A plane had to make an emergency landing in Utah after having engine failure. (Credit: South Jordan Police Department) SOUTH JORDAN, Utah - A couple of friends were forced to land their place on a highway in Utah last week. South Jordan Police said the incident happened Monday around 5:50 p.m.

GOODLAND, Kan. - Residents in northwest Kansas were treated to a special light show Sunday night after meteors whizzed through the sky. The National Weather Service's office in Goodland said the video captured a "small swarm of meteors" in the early morning hours. The NWS posted the video on its Twitter page showing a batch of meteors and stars traveling in outer space. RELATED: NASA confirms 1,000-pound meteor hit the ground in TexasMeanwhile, a small asteroid recently entered the Earth’s atmosphere over western Europe, creating a spectacular sight of a fireball careening across the skies until it made impact in northern France by the English Channel. The European Space Agency tweeted that Sar2667, a one-meter [three-foot] meteoroid, also considered a small asteroid, had been detected and was expected to safely strike Earth’s atmosphere over northern France between 3:50-4:03 CET early last Monday morning. FOX News contributed to this report.

AUSTIN, Texas - An officer was injured and several police cars were damaged during street racing incidents across Austin late Saturday night, says the Austin Police Department.Shortly after 9 p.m. Feb 18, there were incidents of people blocking intersections, one at Lamar Boulevard and Barton Springs Road and another at 51st Street and Mueller Boulevard.Videos across social media showed cars doing donuts and people setting off fireworks while blocking traffic.This video from Twitter user @aaroncrews shows an Austin police car reversing down the road while people walk towards it and throw fireworks.A video posted on social media shows people blocking the intersection of Lamar Boulevard and Barton Springs Road and pushing an Austin police car back with fireworks.

British children's author, short-story writer, playwright and versifier Roald Dahl (1916 - 1995), 11th December 1971. (Photo by Ronald Dumont/Daily Express/Getty Images) LONDON (AP) - Critics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books of censorship after it removed colorful language from works such as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Matilda" to make them more acceptable to modern readers.A review of new editions of Dahl’s books now available in bookstores shows that some passages relating to weight, mental health, gender and race were altered.

Booking photo for James W. Parrillo Jr., released by New Jersey Attorney General and State Police Superintendent.

PHILADELPHIA - Police say two men were struck when a double shooting erupted inside a speakeasy bar in North Philadelphia Sunday morning.Several shots were fired at a speakeasy on the 100 block of Eleanor Street just before 7:30 a.m.Two men, a 20-year-old and 32-year-old, were transported to local hospitals for gunshot wounds. Both are said to be in stable condition.MORE HEADLINES:The 20-year-old was shot in the shoulder and arm, and grazed in the head.

Alexandria Cress Borys was shot and killed in front of her children. (Lexington County Sheriff's Office) A South Carolina woman was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot after an altercation with a stranger on Valentine's Day.Tyler Borys said his wife, 26-year-old Alexandria Cress Borys, was loading groceries into her car at the Kroger in Irmo, South Carolina, when she got into an argument with a woman she didn't know, according to FOX 57 Columbia.After the argument was over, the stranger, later identified by Irmo police as 23-year-old Christina Harrison, allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Borys in the back.

North America, USA, Utah, Toquerville, Scenic Views along Utah Hwy 17 of Hurricane Cliffs. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A Utah teen fell 150 feet to his death in an accident on Saturday evening while climbing near a cliff, authorities said.The 17-year-old boy was with a friend while climbing near the cliff’s edge at the Hurricane Overlook near 600 East State Route 59 around 5:30 p.m., the Hurricane City Police Department said.The teen reportedly slipped and fell about 150 feet to the ground below.First responders were able to climb down and reach the victim within 15 minutes, but determined the teen didn’t survive the fall, police said.BODY OF UTAH TEEN RECOVERED AFTER HE FELL THROUGH ICE AT RESERVOIRThe teen’s name was not immediately released.

People walk past a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on February 18, 2023. - (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images) North Korea said Sunday its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test was meant to further bolster its "fatal" nuclear attack capacity and threatened additional powerful steps over upcoming military drills between the United States and South Korea.The United States responded by flying long-range supersonic bombers in a show of force later Sunday for separate joint exercises with South Korean and Japanese warplanes.Saturday’s ICBM test, the North’s first missile test since Jan.

(Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images) Memphis police say 11 total victims were found after gunfire erupted at and around a nightclub early Sunday. One person was found dead, while another five people were in critical condition, police said. The gunfire stretched to two separate but nearby scenes, which investigators believe to be connected. Police also say there is no solid description of the suspect or suspects, and it’s unclear if the suspect or suspects are known to the victims.

PHILADELPHIA - Police say one car left a trail of destruction in its wake after repeatedly crashing into multiple parked vehicles in Philadelphia's Hunting Park Sunday morning.The cars were struck along the 400 block of Broad Street around 2 a.m. by a speeding driver who police say fled the scene on foot.MORE HEADLINES:Several cars suffered severe damage, with at least one overturned on the sidewalk.

PHILADELPHIA - A suspect has been taken into custody in connection with a shooting that killed a Temple University police officer in the line of duty near the school's campus Saturday night, sources tell FOX 29.Police say the officer was trying to intervene in a carjacking in the area of 18th Street and Montgomery Avenue in North Philadelphia when he was shot.The officer was rushed to Temple University Hospital where he later died, according to the university. His identity has not yet been released.Law enforcement sources tell FOX 29 that an arrest made in Bucks County early Sunday morning was in connection to the Saturday night's shooting.

Rescue teams search for victims at the site of the Yeti Airlines plane crash, in Pokhara on January 17, 2023. - The Yeti Airlines flight with 68 passengers and four crew plummeted into a steep gorge, smashed into pieces and burst into flames as it ap The plane crash that killed 72 people in Nepal on Jan.

Tiger Woods of the United States (L) and Justin Thomas of the United States walk off the ninth tee during the first round of the The Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club on February 16, 2023 in Pacific Palisades, California. (Photo by Cliff H Tiger Woods still has some power in his swing, and he let his playing partners know about it on Thursday.After Justin Thomas failed to outdrive the 47-year-old Woods, the 15-time major champion handed him a tampon.The incident occurred on the ninth tee during the first round, but people started to take notice of what happened late Thursday night.Tiger Woods of the United States (L) and Justin Thomas of the United States walk off the ninth tee during the first round of the The Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club on February 16, 2023 in Pacific Palisades, California.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - A man killed in a shooting in Hacienda Heights Saturday has been identified as an Auxiliary Bishop with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.Bishop David O'Connell was killed in the shooting that happened just before 1 p.m. in the 1500 block of Janlu Avenue. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, O'Connell was shot in the upper torso, and pronounced dead at the scene.

A Brahma hen chicken (File Photo by Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune via Getty Images) A senior citizen was found dead in a pool of blood after he was mauled by a Brahma chicken.The Irish Examiner reported that the aggressive chicken had been moved to Jasper Kraus' property after it had previously attacked a child.Kraus, 67, suffered a heart attack after the bird plunged its spur into his leg, causing him to lose pints of blood.A trail of blood led to the chicken house.The attack happened last year but details were just released as part of an inquiry into the unusual incident.Get breaking news alerts in the free FOX5NY News app!  |  Sign up for FOX 5 email newslettersOne of the birds reportedly had blood on its claws and suspected it was the same one that had attacked Kraus granddaughter before being sent to his farm.The extremely large chickens have feathered shanks and their ancestors were originally from the Shanghai area of China before being taken by ships for meat and eggs.The Brahma chicken averages about 10–12 pounds but is known to weigh as much as 18 pounds.

WEST PHILADELPHIA - Student leaders and youth advocates held a March For Our Lives Youth Summit on Gun Violence in West Philadelphia on Saturday.Several dozen teens between 14 and 19-years-old attended the program which included a panel of community speakers and hands-on breakout rooms.March For Our Lives is a youth-led movement dedicated to promoting civic engagement, education and direct action by youth to eliminate the epidemic of gun violence. It was started following the Parkland school shooting massacre in 2018.MORE HEADLINES:Movita Johnson Harrell is the founder of the CHARLES Foundation which is the Philadelphia Chapter of March For Our Lives.

A member of the Syrian Kurdish Asayish security forces walks past a house during a raid against suspected Islamic State group fighters in Raqa, the jihadist group's former defacto capital in Syria, on January 29, 2023. - After the jihadists lost thei The United States military announced Saturday that it conducted a helicopter raid in eastern Syria that yielded the capture of a top ISIS official. In a press release, CENTCOM announced that U.S.

COLUMBUS, Ga. - Nine youths - including a 5-year-old child - were wounded after shots rang out at a gas station in a Georgia city bordering Alabama, authorities said Saturday.Officers from the Columbus Police Department responded about 10 p.m. Friday and found multiple gunshot victims amid a large group of people.Police Chief Freddie Blackmon said at a news conference Saturday that an altercation apparently took place at a party nearby, and it spilled over to the gas station when the shooting began.

GLENDALE, Ariz. - While the Super Bowl LVII logo was coming down at State Farm Stadium, crime scene tape was going up."Death is a tough thing, especially when it's someone younger," Beverly Graves said.Glendale Police confirmed on Feb. 18 a man working to take down Super Bowl materials around the stadium was unknowingly dragged by another worker in an ATV for several hundred feet.

PHILADELPHIA - A Temple University police officer has died after he was shot while trying to apprehend a robbery suspect, officials say.Sources tell FOX 29 the shooting happened around 7 p.m. in the area of 18th Street and Montgomery Avenue.University officials say the officer was investigating a robbery of a convenience store at 15th Street and Cecil B.

PHILADELPHIA - A Temple University police officer was shot near campus Saturday night, sources tell FOX 29. The shooting happened near 18th Street and Montgomery Avenue, just a few blocks from the university's campus. Sources tell FOX 29’s Steve Keeley the officer was shot in the head and that a Temple student was carjacked around the time of the incident.  Police have not yet released any information about a suspect or arrest at this time. This is a developing story.

KENSINGTON - Philadelphia police are looking for a suspect they say abducted a young woman, at gunpoint, and fled with her in a golf cart.Officials say the incident happened Saturday morning, just after 6:30, on the 2500 block of Aramingo Avenue, in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood.According to authorities, the victim was walking east on Cumberland Street toward Aramingo Avenue, while the suspect appeared to be following her, in a maroon and black Polaris Northstar XP 1000 two-seat golf cart.He pulled into a bank parking lot on the 2500 block of Aramingo and fired a weapon one time, the bullet hitting the asphalt of the lot.At that point, officials say, a witness told police the man crossed over Aramingo into the Wawa and Applebee’s parking lot, got out of the golf cart, pulled out a gun, pointed the gun at the woman, grabbed her and shoved her into the golf cart.Then he drove off in the golf cart, with the woman, heading west on Cumberland.The victim is a woman in her late 20s or early 30s, wearing a light-colored jacket, a dark shirt, black jeans with a white design on the left leg. She was carrying a black bag.The man is about 6’0", and was wearing ripped blue jeans, a brown plaid smock shirt and a green beanie-style hat.Anyone with any information regarding the man, the victim or the incident is urged to contact Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit at 215-685-3251 or 3266 or 3264 or dial 911.

People walk past a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on February 18, 2023. - North Korea fired a suspected long-range ballistic missile on February 18, South Korea's mi SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Saturday fired a long-range missile from its capital into the sea off Japan, according to its neighbors, a day after it threatened to take strong measures against South Korea and the U.S.

The Ukrainian flag flutters between buildings destroyed in bombardment, in the Ukrainian town of Borodianka, in the Kyiv region on April 17, 2022. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images) MUNICH (AP) - The United States has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday, insisting that "justice must be served" to the perpetrators.Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Harris said the international community has both a moral and a strategic interest in pursuing those crimes, pointing to a danger of other authoritarian governments taking advantage if international rules are undermined."Russian forces have pursued a widespread and systemic attack against a civilian population — gruesome acts of murder, torture, rape, and deportation," Harris said.

A building collapse in Alaska Friday evening killed one person and briefly trapped two others. (Anchorage Fire Department) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A building collapse in Alaska Friday evening killed one person and briefly trapped two others, including a victim who communicated with firefighters before being freed and transported to a hospital, officials said.The Anchorage Fire Department confirmed the death of one victim after a building housing the Turnagain CrossFit gym collapsed, the Anchorage Daily News reported.Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson tweeted that the fire department and the Anchorage Police Department responded to reports of the building collapse at 5:25 p.m.RELATED: Pig who ‘looked cold’ gets lift from Alaska officersFire department Assistant Chief Brian Partch said more than 10 people were inside when the building collapsed and three were trapped in the structure east of Old Seward Highway, the newspaper reported.Firefighters located and were able to speak to one person while working for about an hour to cut away debris.

Colorado made an icy rescue Friday evening. An elk had gotten fallen through the ice of a frozen pond and had become trapped.People passing by called 911 to report the struggling elk, according to the Evergreen Fire Department. Evergreen is a small town southwest of Denver near the beginning of the mountain range. The rescue took the strength of two firefighters.

The KFC logo is displayed outside a KFC restaurant, a unit of Yum! Brands Inc., in Houston, July 13, 2010. (Aaron M.

ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, USA - JUNE 1: Mickey Mouse and friends take part in a cavalcade parade on Main Street USA at the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World in Orange County, Florida on June 1, 2022. Walt Disney World is celebrating its 50th anni Disney employees are pushing back on the company's announcement that it will be returning to four days a week of in-person work.More than 2,300 workers have signed a petition addressed to CEO Bob Iger urging the executive to abandon the planned return to offices, claiming it is "likely to have unintended consequences that cause long-term harm to the company."FLORIDA BILL REVOKING DISNEY'S SELF-GOVERNING STATUS HEADS TO DESANTIS' DESK"This policy will slow, or even reverse, our post-COVID recovery and growth by creating critical resource shortages and causing irreplaceable institutional knowledge loss," the employee petition reads.Iger’s original email announcing the return to pre-pandemic workspaces, obtained by FOX Business, informed Disney employees of the policy change going into effect March 1. DISNEY TO SLASH 7,000 JOBSAt that time, those "currently working in a hybrid fashion will be asked to spend four days a week on-site, targeting Monday through Thursday as in-person workdays," according to the email.He pointed to the "tremendous value in being together with the people you work with" as he explained his reasoning for the change, noting he has been holding meetings with various teams across Disney since returning to the company."As you’ve heard me say many times, creativity is the heart and soul of who we are and what we do at Disney," Iger said in the email.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks to the congregation at Maranatha Baptist Church before teaching Sunday school in his hometown of Plains, Georgia on April 28, 2019.

PHILADELPHIA - A 23-year-old mother is now being charged in connection to the abuse of her own children after a 3-year-old child was found unresponsive and bruised in her West Philadelphia home on Friday. Police made the horrifying discovery when responding to a residence on the 400 block of 50th Street around 2:30 a.m. The 3-year-old was pronounced dead at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia a short time later.Officials say the young girl was unresponsive in a bathtub with no water, and had bruises on her body.Two other children, ages 2 and 4, found inside the home were also transported to a local hospital for bruises and burns to their bodies, according to authorities. MORE HEADLINES:Officials say they are the children of Kiarali Rodriguez-Ayala, who has been arrested and charged for their violent abuse. The 3-year-old child is said not be a relative of Rodriguez-Ayala, but was under her care at the time. An investigation into her death is still active with the Special Victims Unit.

Kymani Roberts NEW CASTLE COUNTY, Del. - Delaware State Police say suspects led police on a vehicle and foot pursuit after carrying out a carjacking outside an LA Fitness parking lot Friday morning.A 48-year-old man was sitting in his locked car when he was approached by a group in the parking lot at 900 Eden Circle in New Castle County.The victim told police that one man tried to get into the back of the car, while another stood pointing a gun at him demanding he get out and hand over his keys. He complied, and was not injured.MORE HEADLINES:The suspects were unable to reverse the stolen car, and instead got into another car to flee the scene.Trooper pursued until the car crashed in Wilmington, and the driver attempted to run away.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A man has been ordered to stand trial in the shooting death of one police officer and the wounding of another in western Pennsylvania earlier this month.Johnathan Jermia Morris, 31, of McKeesport is charged in Allegheny County with criminal homicide, attempted homicide and assault of a law enforcement officer and firearms crimes in the Feb. 6 shootings in McKeesport, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Pittsburgh.Authorities have said that officers were called to a home over a dispute involving a man who police said was having a "mental health crisis." Police allege they caught up with him after he walked away, and he "suddenly produced a handgun" and shot them.

NEW CASTLE, Del. - A Friday night crash ended with five people being rushed to trauma centers after three of them had to be pulled from wrecked cars.Fire officials say the "serious" crash unfolded on the 800 block of Moores Lane in New Castle around 9:45 p.m.Five patients were triaged as emergency crews arrived at the scene, with three of them trapped inside the vehicles, according to Good Will Fire Company.MORE HEADLINES:The trapped passengers were extricated, and all five people were transported to local trauma centers.

West Virginia.Officials said they found the vehicle about 2:30 p.m. local time in an area where 18 feet of water had been reported. The baby's body was found inside. Fayette County Sheriff Mike Fridley told FOX Weather that a recovery mission was being conducted along Paint Creek."It's just a bad situation nobody ever likes to deal with in our profession," Fridley said.Deputies received a 911 call from the mother about 8:30 a.m.

BRIDGEVILLE, Del. - A 57-year-old woman was found dead inside her Bridgeville home Friday morning, sparking a homicide investigation by Delaware State Police.Family members requested a welfare check of the victim when they couldn't get in contact with her.When entering the home on Champions Drive in Heritage Shores, officers discovered the deceased woman, who they say appeared to be a homicide victim.MORE HEADLINES:No further details about what led to her death have been released.Police are looking for the victim's missing vehicle, a silver 2017 Mercedes-Benz GLS with Delaware registration "YCANTI."

the disastrous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, officials in Maine have been collecting data to see what impacts — if any — the plume of smoke and chemicals will have on air quality in the New England area. Wind patterns in and around New England often travel from west to east and many states are located downwind of Ohio, which usually means whatever pollutants Ohio gets, most of New England could eventually receive as well. "We have been often referred to, euphemistically, as the exhaust pipe for the nation because the way typical weather patterns move across the country, and if there’s any kind of pollution event that occurs elsewhere, it eventually finds its way to the East Coast, and more often than not, because of the way weather systems move in this area of the country, we get the last of it before it exits into the Maritimes of Canada or the Atlantic Ocean," said Andy Johnson, director of the air quality assessment division for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.Smoke and flames rise after the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, United States.CREDIT: US Environmental Protection Agency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images RELATED: What we know about the Ohio train derailmentBut will a train derailment and subsequent chemical smoke from hundreds of miles away have the capability of reaching as far east as Maine? According to Johnson, it’s not very likely. "When the train derailed, and the cars were on fire, and then they did intentionally vent some of the tanks to prevent explosions in the area, those emissions that got released into the air at that time, would have reached here in a day, two at the most," Johnson said.

toxic Norfolk Southern train derailment that threatened the village of East Palestine.Gov. Mike DeWine said the move came following further discussions with the agency. In a joint statement on Friday, the governor and FEMA Regional Administrator Thomas Sivak said FEMA and Ohio had been in "constant contact" regarding emergency operations in the community. "U.S.