While witnesses and investigators search for answers in a school gym, Hilary Flint scans all her social media platforms for updates. She’s staying out of East Palestine, Ohio, convinced that it’s unsafe to go there.

Instead, she’s staying up to date through her myriad contacts in various activist groups in the area, all from the place her family has called home for 70 years. Enon Valley, population 300, is just across the state line in Pennsylvania.

I personally try to avoid town," Flint said. "Yesterday was the first time I’ve been there for a while (for an NTSB Community Meeting), and I was dizzy.”

She lives with her grandmother. Her brother’s family has a home up the lane.

Flint said the toxic plume, released by a controlled explosion at the crash site on Feb. 6, passed right over her home.

“I knew we had to get out of there," she said.

Since then, Flint has had the home independently tested by Wayne State University and said it's tested positive for vinyl chloride and several types of PFAS.

She and her grandma didn’t plant their usual 17 varieties of tomatoes or anything in their garden this year. Flint doesn’t feel safe eating anything grown here.

Her family's land sits surrounded by corn fields. Food is everywhere, but she's concerned about the unknown effects of the derailment. Mentally, Flint says she’s “overwhelmed” trying to help her community get the assistance it needs.

“To have that feeling that I’m fighting for people, myself, and my family, it’s not something I signed up for," Flint said.

Now she feels she must fight from afar.

“Right now, I’m a cancer survivor and finding out these chemicals are in my home," she said. "I just can’t stay here.”

Flint now plans to carry the fight online from New York state.