Dead Fish Surface in Emory River After Ethanol Train Spill

Car Crash Lancing Tennessee in Lancing, Tennessee: A Norfolk Southern freight train carrying ethanol derailed near the community of Lancing in Morgan County, Tennessee, on June 11, sending ethanol into the Emory River. An evacuation order was issued and later lifted, and a temporary public contact advisory was placed on parts of the river while water samples were collected. In late June, several weeks after the derailment, local emergency officials documented fish kills along stretches of the Emory River downstream of the accident site, renewing concerns about long-term water quality, recreation, and tourism impacts on the Cumberland Plateau.