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Residents of Lady of the Oaks Retirement Manor are evacuated Saturday May 17, 2008 after authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order for about 3,000 residents who live within a one-mile radius of an early morning train derailment in Lafayette. La. The train was leaking hydrochloric acid.

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