Posted on 04/17/2013 10:23:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
First came the fire, then the blast. Assuming the EMS reports are correct, a terror attack on U.S. soil is responsible for only the second-largest mass-casualty event this week. Dwell on that.
Unbelievable:
West EMS Director Dr. George Smith says as many as 60 or 70 people died and hundreds were injured Wednesday night in a fertilizer plant explosion in West.
A rescuer earlier said he knew of five deaths.
Meanwhile, emergency crews were pulling back late Wednesday night because of concerns about the possibility of a second explosion…
The fire started in an anhydrous ammonia tank and spread to the building, authorities said.
It gets worse and worse. More than 60 people are in the hospital, 44 in serious condition. Among the dead, per CNN, are five firefighters and one cop. The explosion apparently sent fire onto the local middle school and … a nursing home. I’m afraid of what I’ll see when I open up news websites in the morning.
If you’re having trouble imagining how big a blast is needed to do that sort of damage, here you go. No one dies on camera but the video’s profoundly distressing, needless to say. Proceed with caution.
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Update: Another vivid gauge of the power of the explosion.
(TWEET W/PHOTO AT LINK)
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
The Sheriff just did a presser.
He will not commit to any numbers.
He says we will know in the morning.
He did sound rattled when he reported that the 60 unit Apt complex was nothing but a skeleton.
Photos and videos here along with reports from local news as I hear it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3009174/posts
Prayers for Texas
This week sucks
50-60 home flattened. They’re going back into that area, to look for people now. Three miles around was flattened. At least 100 to hospitals.
No, There were active places 6-8 blocks away unscathed.
We will know more tomorrow.
I’m going by the latest report from some guy there. Everything is still fluid and you’re right by tomorrow in daylight we’ll know more. Power is out there so locals can’t get informatiion.
Mentioning the Boston event was not called for
TT
This had better been an accident.
Stay safe.
Dreadful. RIP.
BTTT!
Either that or whoever set fire to that tank is gonna BURN IN HELL!
I don’t think this was an accident, and I’m not an Alex Jones type.
When anyone asks how I'm doing I point out that I did manage to wake up before CQ and God and everybody to SSS. Waking up is pretty big in some books.
/johnny
Mighty suspicious...and only 20 miles from George W’s place.
Even Alex Jones, Art Bell and David Icke are right once in awhile.
Did you realize that tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the Waco seige of the branch davidians?
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