No injuries reported in Wash. state derailment

Two BNSF trains derailed in separate incidents in Arizona and Washington State on Thursday, with the latter spilling diesel fuel on tribal land along Puget Sound. No injuries were reported. It wasn't clear what caused either derailment.

The derailment in Washington occurred on a berm along Padilla Bay, on the Swinomish tribal reservation near Anacortes. Most of 5,000 gallons of spilled diesel fuel leaked on the land side of the berm rather than toward the water, according to the state Ecology Department.

Officials said there were no indications the spill reached the water or affected any wildlife. Responders placed a boom along the shoreline as a precaution and removed the remaining fuel from two locomotives that derailed. Four tank cars remained upright. The derailment in western Arizona, near the state’s border with California and Nevada, involved a train carrying corn syrup. The U.S. averages about three train derailments per day, according to federal data, but relatively few create disasters.