Images: Updated: Illinois train derailment

Rail cars burn after 26-six cars on the 131-car train derailed, including seven to nine loaded with ethanol, in Tiskilwa, Ill. Fire officials say the trains tanker cars were shipping ethanol along with perhaps other materials and chemicals when the early-morning derailment happened. ABC TV

Ethanol remaining in tanker cars burns off at the scene of a train derailment in Tiskilwa, Ill., Friday morning, Oct. 7, 2011. Twenty-six cars on the 131-car train derailed early Friday morning, including seven to nine loaded with ethanol, sending up bright orange flames and plumes of smoke that could be seen miles away and forcing the evacuation of the small town of Tiskilwa. The News Tribune

Rail cars burn after 26-six cars on the 131-car train derailed, including seven to nine loaded with ethanol, in Tiskilwa, Ill. Fire officials say the trains tanker cars were shipping ethanol along with perhaps other materials and chemicals when the early-morning derailment happened. ABC TV

This frame grab provided by ABC TV, Chicago, shows a freight train in flames Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, in Tiskilwa, Ill. Twenty-six cars on the 131-car train derailed, including seven to nine loaded with ethanol, sending up bright orange flames and plumes of smoke that could be seen miles away and forcing the evacuation of a small town in northern Illinois. ABC TV

This frame grab provided by WBBM TV, Chicago, shows a freight train in flames Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, in Tiskilwa, Ill. Twenty-six cars on the 131-car train derailed, including seven to nine loaded with ethanol, sending up bright orange flames and plumes of smoke that could be seen miles away and forcing the evacuation of a small town in northern Illinois. WBBM TV

This frame grab provided by ABC TV, Chicago, shows a freight train in flames Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, in Tiskilwa, Ill. Twenty-six cars on the 131-car train derailed, including seven to nine loaded with ethanol, sending up bright orange flames and plumes of smoke that could be seen miles away and forcing the evacuation of a small town in northern Illinois. ABC TV

Federal Railroad Administration official Denis Mogen, right, of Chicago, uses a cell phone to get a picture of a train wreck and fire near Tiskilwa, Ill., Friday morning, Oct. 7, 2011. Twenty-six cars on the 131-car train derailed early Friday morning, including seven to nine loaded with ethanol, sending up bright orange flames and plumes of smoke that could be seen miles away and forcing the evacuation of the small town of Tiskilwa. The News Tribune

Manda Jonas, right, 14, tries to call her mother Rhonda Griffin who is working, while she and her sister Michaela Jonas, 12, wait inside Princeton High School Cafeteria after a freight train loaded with ethanol crashed and exploded in their hometown of Tiskilwa, Ill., early Friday morning, Oct. 7, 2011. The derailment forced the evacuation of the village of Tiskilwa. Princeton High School, which was free from classes Friday, was opened to the Red Cross and evacuees of Tiskilwa. La Salle News Tribune

Rail cars lie in a smoldering heap after a freight train loaded with ethanol, crashed and exploded Friday, Oct. 7, 2001, near Tiskilwa, Ill. The National Transportation Safety Board says it is dispatching a six-person team to investigate Fridays rail accident near the 800-resident village. Fire officials say the trains tanker cars were shipping ethanol along with perhaps other materials and chemicals when the early-morning derailment happened. Associated Press

Rail cars burn after 26-six cars on the 131-car train derailed, including seven to nine loaded with ethanol, in Tiskilwa, Ill. Fire officials say the trains tanker cars were shipping ethanol along with perhaps other materials and chemicals when the early-morning derailment happened. ABC TV