Two days after a fiery train wreck in the small town of Mosier, city councilors issued a demand Sunday, calling on Oregon Gov. Kate Brown to intervene in Union Pacific's plan to restart train traffic.

Voting in an emergency meeting Sunday afternoon, according to a news release, the council called upon Union Pacific and legislators to remove oil from the derailed train cars and complete an investigation before again running train traffic through town. City leaders said they want to know what went wrong and see the problem fixed before another oil train rolls through town.

Read statements from city leaders below:

Mayor Arlene Burns: "The City of Mosier strongly objects to Union Pacific's plans to restart running trains, including oil trains, as early as tonight through the derailment site where damaged oil tankers continue to sit feet from newly laid railroad track. Restarting trains before the high-risk carnage of their last accident is even cleared from the tracks is telling Mosier they are going to play a second round of Russian roulette without our town -- it's totally unacceptable."

City Council President Emily Reed: "Everyone wants to see train traffic restarted, but we are very concerned about the safety of our town. The new tracks will be no safer than before the derailment and now we have tens of thousands of gallons of oil sitting in damaged rail tankers just feet away from the proposed new active track. They do not yet know what happened in this section of track to cause the accident on Friday so on what basis can they safely re-start running oil trains down this same section of track? This is literally hundreds of feet from our homes and school."

-- Emily E. Smith

esmith@oregonian.com

503-294-4032; @emilyesmith