Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes after an oil train derailed and caught fire near a city centre in the US state of Virginia.
A black pall of smoke drifted over central Lynchburg after Wednesday's incident involving up to 14 carriages.
Three of them ended up in the James River and some 50,000 gallons (190,000 litres) of oil were missing from the tankers, said Lynchburg officials.
But it is unclear how much spilled into the water or burned up. Health officials said the city's drinking water would not be affected.
Firefighters decided to allow the blaze on the train, which was on its way from Chicago to an undisclosed destination, to burn out.
Train company CSX said it was "responding fully, with emergency response personnel, safety and environmental experts".
There have been a number of similar accidents in the US and Canada in the past year. Forty-seven people died when a runaway oil train derailed and exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, last July.
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