Texas explosion

norm
norm Posts: 31,146
edited April 2013 in All Encompassing Trip
Hundreds of people were likely to have been injured in a fiery explosion on Wednesday night at a fertiliser plant near Waco, Texas, that damaged or destroyed numerous buildings including a nursing home, authorities said.

The blast was reported at about 8pm (1am GMT on Thursday) in West, a town of 2,700 people about 80 miles (130km) south of Dallas and 20 miles (32km) north of Waco.
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A spokesman for the Texas department of public safety, DL Wilson, told Reuters the blast had probably caused "hundreds of casualties" and damaged many homes.

He added that a nearby nursing home collapsed from the explosion and people were believed trapped inside.

A Reuters reporter observed that a middle school and several homes in the area appeared to have been severely burned.

More than 100 people injured in the blast and fire were being taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Centre in Waco, said the vice-president of hospital operations, David Argueta.

The Hillcrest chief executive, Glenn Robinson, told CNN that the hospital was seeing "everything from orthopaedic injuries to patients that are experiencing serious blood loss".

The Texas governor, Rick Perry, issued a statement saying his office had "mobilised state resources to help local authorities" deal with the incident.

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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    This is going to be horrific. Tomorrow morning's pictures are going to look like Hiroshima.

    Buildings flattened for miles around.
    My whole life
    was like a picture
    of a sunny day
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  • mbangel10
    mbangel10 Posts: 548
    This is horrible. A nursing home and a middle school are on fire too.

    This video looks like it was taken about 1/4 mile away or so... very scary and I hope they are ok.

    http://youtu.be/ROrpKx3aIjA
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    I'm at a loss.....
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  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    I hope the person who was in the vehicle is alright ... they kept saying they couldn't hear.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,946
    Good Lord!
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    no words....horrible...the voice of the little girl is heartbreaking
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  • shep
    shep Houston Posts: 5,901
    word this morning on the news is that the fatalities are numbered around 180 people...

    insane.

    I hate to say this, but I really hope this was the fault of an industrial accident and no one purposefully caused this...

    seems like the entire USA has gone haywire in the last week....
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    shep wrote:

    I hate to say this, but I really hope this was the fault of an industrial accident and no one purposefully caused this...

    ....
    seriously man...i thought the same too..better be an accident..even sound crazy..oh boy ,,its madness..
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  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    Did someone forget to make a sacrifice to the gods this past weekend?

    I can't believe what I am seeing on the news... My heart goes out to this town..
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  • javis el errante
    javis el errante Buenos Aires Posts: 6,145
    let's hope ii is just a momentary sequel from the blast...
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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,915
    Wow. That video is insane. This has not been a good week.
  • STAYSEA
    STAYSEA Posts: 3,814
    Texas has had a very strange year.
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    mfc2006 wrote:
    I'm at a loss.....

    I know the explosion was close to Waco...was that close to where you lived?

    So very sad.
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  • drivingrl
    drivingrl Posts: 1,448
    Morning after footage: http://www.wfaa.com/video?id=203634481&sec=552897&ref=rcvidmod

    What a sad thing. :( Who doesn't stop in West between Dallas and Austin? It's a tradition!
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    RKCNDY wrote:
    mfc2006 wrote:
    I'm at a loss.....

    I know the explosion was close to Waco...was that close to where you lived?

    So very sad.


    Yeah, Lisa...it was. We have quite a few friends in West. Some of which we haven't heard from yet. I know that the cell towers were damaged....

    I want this week to end. :(
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  • drivingrl
    drivingrl Posts: 1,448
    mfc2006 wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    mfc2006 wrote:
    I'm at a loss.....

    I know the explosion was close to Waco...was that close to where you lived?

    So very sad.


    Yeah, Lisa...it was. We have quite a few friends in West. Some of which we haven't heard from yet. I know that the cell towers were damaged....

    Oh no. :( Praying for them, and for the first responders unaccounted for. :(
    drivingrl: "Will I ever get to meet Gwen Stefani?"
    kevinbeetle: "Yes. When her career washes up and her and Gavin move to Galveston, you will meet her at Hot Topic shopping for a Japanese cheerleader outfit.

    Next!"
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    mfc2006 wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    mfc2006 wrote:
    I'm at a loss.....

    I know the explosion was close to Waco...was that close to where you lived?

    So very sad.


    Yeah, Lisa...it was. We have quite a few friends in West. Some of which we haven't heard from yet. I know that the cell towers were damaged....

    I want this week to end. :(

    {{{HUGS}}} to you Matt, hopefully you will be able to contact them soon. :(
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    drivingrl wrote:
    Morning after footage: http://www.wfaa.com/video?id=203634481&sec=552897&ref=rcvidmod

    What a sad thing. :( Who doesn't stop in West between Dallas and Austin? It's a tradition!
    Exactly! Stop to get gas and buy some of those awesome kolaches!

    For those who watched the video and heard the little girl saying that she can't hear, on the news this morning they said that she recovered her hearing a short time later. Still, what a traumatic thing to experience.

    I seldom think about how dangerous the firefighters and EMTs jobs are. This is such a terrible reminder of what they face all the time. So very sad for the lives lost. :cry:
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  • STAYSEA
    STAYSEA Posts: 3,814
    does anyone remember this day?

    http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/08/us/ga ... tures.html

    It's happened a few times since then. I flipped out. I thought the world was ending.

    Everywhere in this country has experienced serious disasters/events this week?

    I mailed three packages today to Illinois and Ohio. I didn't know those areas where flooded till I got back home.

    I'm really at a loss for words.

    Seems everything around me is going down like a turd in a well.

    :cry:
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  • STAYSEA
    STAYSEA Posts: 3,814
    mfc2006 wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    mfc2006 wrote:
    I'm at a loss.....

    I know the explosion was close to Waco...was that close to where you lived?

    So very sad.


    Yeah, Lisa...it was. We have quite a few friends in West. Some of which we haven't heard from yet. I know that the cell towers were damaged....

    I want this week to end. :(

    I'm so sad also about West. Please let us know if you hear anything.
    This is all I've found...

    "7:00 P.M.: Dallas Fire-Rescue captain Kenny Harris confirmed dead in the West Fertilizer Co. explosion. Harris lived in West and worked as a firefighter at Station 30 in Dallas.

    KVUE (http://bit.ly/17sYRBV) reports that Harris was not a volunteer firefighter for West but responded when he heard news of the fire that broke out Wednesday night at the plant. Harris, 52, was a father of three grown sons.

    6:45 P.M.: An official death toll has not yet been released, but the Los Angeles Times reports (http://lat.ms/11mb2yE) that Mayor Tommy Muska said 35 to 40 people are believed to be dead in a massive fertilizer plant explosion "because they are unaccounted for and still missing."

    "We are out there searching the rubble, looking in each and every house. We are trying to locate each and every citizen," Mayor Tommy Muska said in a telephone interview.

    Muska said he arrived at the count of 35 to 40 dead because all other residents and first-responders in the area have been identified. Among those who were missing and believed dead, he said, were as many as six firefighters and four emergency medical technicians."
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