BBCNEWS Witness History November 19, 2021 02:51:00
People who walked in the pools found their shoes burnt through, dogs became sick and lame. underneath the ground, the drums containing the chemicals had rotted through. on august 2 of 1978, the first notice of evacuation came out for 239 houses that were sitting directly on the canal itself. they built a fence around the deserted houses to keep people away from the chemicals, but the poisons themselves are no respecters of boundaries. beyond the evacuated area, hundreds more families live in houses held to be outside the danger zone. my sonjohn was sick and i went busy, you know, just going ba...