John Sarbanes: “Actually, they knew what was in the train because they had the railroad manifest of what was contained in the railroad…”

“Actually, they knew what was in the train because they had the railroad manifest of what was contained in the railroad cars. They knew, in fact, there was hazardous material being carried in some of the 60 cars that were on that train. Firefighters do a great job day in and day out all across the country. We generally sort of simply come to accept as a matter of course the tremendous risk they run. A high profile incident like this, of course, focuses attention back on it. There was tremendous heroism there. But there is also tremendous heroism on the part of firefighters taking place every day all across America in extremely dangerous circumstances.”