Movie about east palestine

Ohio resident Ben Ratner was excited when he landed a gig as an extra in a Netflix movie about a toxic disaster in October 2021. But now the 37-year-old father of four — who lives in East Palestine, Ohio, less than a mile from the site of a train derailment that led to a massive toxic chemical spill and forced residents to evacuate — is living out a real-life version of the movie's plot that's continuing to unfold. "Talk about art imitating life," Ratner — who plays an evacuee in the film adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel White Noise about a freight train explosion that releases deadly toxins into the air — tells PEOPLE. "This is such a scary situation. And you can just about drive yourself crazy thinking about how uncanny the similarities are between what's happening now and in that movie." Crash site after a Norfolk and Southern freight train derailed on Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio.Gene J Puskar/AP/Shutterstock Like nearly half of the residents in the Ohio village of East Palestine (population over 4,700), located about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, the Ratner family's life was upended around 9 p.m. on Feb. 3 when 50 rail cars filled with chemicals and combustible materials ran off the track. One of those chemicals was vinyl chloride, a toxic flammable gas. And shortly after the derailment, a massive fire erupted, sending enormous clouds of pitch-black smoke into the air, forcing evacuations on both sides of the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Two days later officials were so fearful that the rail cars filled with vinyl chloride would explode, potentially sending shrapnel over a mile-wide radius, that they vented the chemical into a trench and burned it. Ratner — who owns a coffee shop in nearby Salem — along with his wife and kids, spent eight days living with friends, relatives and in an Airbnb property before finally returning home three days after the evacuation order was finally lifted. "Once we got back, we did a lot of cleaning and let the house air out, but all those chemicals that burned create byproducts, like hydrochloric acid, in the form of a film that's been left on the surfaces of our homes," says Ratner, who is not only worried about the long-term health impacts of the disaster but fears how it will affect the economy of his community. Gene J Puskar/AP/Shutterstock "We still need answers about how to keep our families safe while also maintaining some sort of a regular existence for our kids." The environmental fallout from the derailment is clearly still unfolding. On Feb. 10 — seven days after the disaster — the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter notifying the Norfolk

Where Was 'White Noise' Filmed? Life Is Imitating Art a Little Too CloselyBy Published Feb. 15 2023, 11:12 a.m. ETSource: NetflixThe derailment of a train in East Palestine, Ohio, has devastated the community and may lead to lingering health problems for many of its residents. As many around the country follow the details of the derailment, and of the toxic chemicals that had to be burned off in its aftermath, some are noticing eerie parallels to Netflix's Adam Driver–led film White Noise, which hit the streamer at the very end of 2022.Just how shocking are the similarities? Well, it even comes down to location. Where exactly does White Noise take place, and where was it filmed?Article continues below advertisementSource: Netflix'White Noise' (2022)Where does the movie 'White Noise' take place?White Noise is set in Ohio in 1984. The film follows a college professor and his blended family as their life is disrupted by a train derailment, which leads to what officials call an "airborne toxic event." This toxic event forces the family to evacuate their home, and eventually the patriarch discovers that his exposure to the toxic air will undoubtedly shorten his life. Article continues below advertisementThe stunning similarities between the events of the movie and the actual train derailment in East Palestine have left many confounded and shocked. Of course, White Noise is based on a book of the same name that first came out in 1985, so it's not as if the ideas in it are brand-new. Instead, the novel tackles the materialist consumer culture of the 1980s with precision, and the movie translates many of those ideas. Article continues below advertisementWhere was 'White Noise' filmed?Many movies often choose to film in other locations in order to save money. In this case, though, director Noah Baumbach did almost all of his filming in Ohio. That included six weeks of filming at the University of Akron as well as some filming in downtown Cleveland.The movie also features scenes filmed on a variety of other campuses, including Kent State, The College of Wooster, and Andrews Osborne Academy.Additional photography also took place in Wellington, Oberlin, Ashtabula Pine Lake Raceway and Trail Riding, Cleveland Heights, Dorset, Hiram College, Lowell Klinefelter Stadium at Canton Central Catholic High School in Stark County, and Perry Township, near Salem.Article continues below advertisementThe Ohio train derailment feels a lot like 'White Noise.'As plenty of people have already pointed out, the actual derailment of a train near East Palestine had some strange similarities to White Noise. The real-life train derailed on Feb. 3, and 38 cars ultimately derailed while another 12 were damaged by the ensuing fires. The train was carrying combustible materials including vinyl chloride, a gas that

Christina Siceloff and her boyfriend Randy Dehaven document the creeks of East Palestine, Ohio. She is Safekeeper115 on TikTok. He is Merica2.0 Media on YouTube.Before any trip into the creeks, Christina is filled with reproach. “Here we go again,” she tells herself, taking that first, chilly step into the water. Armed with a stick, rainbow polka dot boots and an industrial-grade respirator, Christina, 38, uses the stick to disturb the creek’s floor. She pushes against the soil and overturns rocks.Christina is determined to prove that the waterways of East Palestine remain contaminated, long after the Norfolk Southern train derailment of February 2023.With little effort, a rainbow sheen emerges and takes over the waterway. The once clear, undisturbed creek assumes a metallicappearance. At the right angle, it reveals shades of blue, purple, green, and orange. This is the visual beauty Christina and Randy need people to see.Christina started posting videos of the creeks in April, two months after the train derailment. It was her third TikTok video under the handle Safekeeper115. The first two were early responses to the derailment. The rest — more than 50 videos — chronicle the waterways of East Palestine.Christina Siceloff of Darlington, Pa. and Randy Dehaven of East Palestine, Ohio pose for a portrait in a chemically contaminated local waterway on Nov. 4, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. (Photos by Alysa Rubin)Photos by Alysa RubinOn the night of the East Palestine train derailment, Christina put her son, Edward, to bed and went to Facebook to scroll

And north East Syria. The Lebanese Christians reaffirmed their identity in Mount Lebanon; the Copts attempted to reform in upper Egypt, and the Afro-Nubians called for self determination in southern Sudan. The historic national rights of these native nations were met with radical rejection by the established Arab regimes. Ethnic conflicts exploded in Sudan and Lebanon, while ethnic oppression was implemented in northern Iraq and Egypt. The political suppression of minor Christian communities was also applied in Syria and north Africa.What happened to the "Arab Christians?" At the onset of Islam, all of the Arab Christian tribes were military defeated or subdued. Numbers of them converted to Islam for socio-political reasons. When the Arab Islamic armies conquered the upper Middle East, the "Christian Arabs" were erased from Arabia, their Churches destroyed or converted to Mosques. Only few clans survived in southern Iraq, southern Syria, and mainly in north west Arabia -which became Trans-Jordan a few centuries later. After the conquest, some of these Arab Christian clans emigrated to Palestine moving in from the East. They joined the non-Arab Christians who were present in Palestine after the Jewish dispersion, and seven centuries before the Arab invasion. There are two types of Christians in Palestine, and later on within the state of Israel. The non-Arab Middle Eastern Christians, and Arabs who are Christians. The largest Christian nation are the Copts, who number about 12 million. The Egyptian government recognize only 2.5 million. The most concentrated and socially organized nation are the Lebanese Christians (mostly Maronites) who number 1.5 million in Lebanon and about seven million in the diaspora. The Assyro-Chaldeans of Iraq are about 1 million in Mesopotamia, and one million in the diaspora. The Christians of Syria are about a million. Non-Arab Syriacs (Arameans), Arabized Syriacs, and Arab Christians (mostly Orthodox),

Home “in a panic.” She rushed around the house packing bags and thought through where she could go. She called friends and family, looking for help or a place to be safe.“There was nowhere to go,” she said.The three of them stayed home.Norfolk Southern, East Palestine announce $22M settlement after 2023 derailmentAppeal delays $600 million class action settlement payments in fiery Ohio derailmentEast Palestine residents want more time and information before deciding to accept $600M settlementThat afternoon, the vinyl chloride at the site of the derailment was burned. The result: a dark plume of smoke that lifted over East Palestine and made its way east, over the border into western Pennsylvania and then south. It was so dense, meteorologists picked it up on radars.Christina went outside just after sunset and wasn’t able to see the moon or the stars. Around midnight, the skies cleared.That night, she had watery eyes, a “burning” throat and a cough.“I couldn’t talk for like a week,” Christina said.When the EPA and Norfolk Southern began cleaning up contaminated soil near the tracks, Christina said, everyone in her house had diarrhea and were vomiting.She took Covid tests and had multiple doctor’s visits; months later, she was diagnosed with chemical exposure.Christina first heard that the fish were dying. Skeptical, she wanted to see for herself. It was 11 days after the train derailment in East Palestine. Her son and father accompanied her down to Sulphur and Leslie Runs. They could all tell something was wrong.“Even the rocks didn’t