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Powerful Explosion Rocks Small Town North of Waco
WFAA ^ | Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Posted on 04/17/2013 6:51:57 PM PDT by kristinn

A large explosion rocked the town of West, Texas, 19 miles north of Waco, on Wednesday evening.

A source tells News 8 that a large swath of the small town with a population of 2,800 has been leveled.

According to initial reports, the blast was at the West Fertilizer plant at 1471 Jerry Mashek Drive, about a half-mile east of Interstate 35.

(Excerpt) Read more at wfaa.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: fertilizer; fertilizerplant; plantexplosion; waco; westfertilizer; westtexas
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To: amom

Looks like they just pulled the video...

Think they got some hate mail? :)


41 posted on 04/17/2013 7:38:03 PM PDT by Advil000
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To: rdl6989

I think it’s a likely guess that many more people were killed in this than in Boston. Media won’t really jump on it until they get an exciting body count. That may take a while because I suspect many of those killed are now a red mist.

Interesting to see if the media or country cares. I doubt there will be any national conversation about hazardous industrial sites in residential areas (though I suspect if you total all the people killed in this country in industrial explosions it exceeds those killed in terrorist explosions by a ratio of 100:1 or 1000:1).


42 posted on 04/17/2013 7:40:12 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: kristinn

McLennan County Police, Fire and EMS live feed here:

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/2663


43 posted on 04/17/2013 7:42:42 PM PDT by FortWorthPatriot ("If this be treason, make the most of it." - Patrick Henry, 30 May 1765)
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To: Advil000
Think they got some hate mail? :)

Think they got SOMETHING! I can't imagine why they would pull stock footage for an incident this serious.

44 posted on 04/17/2013 7:43:08 PM PDT by amom
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To: kristinn

Close to 11000 people listening to the McLennan County radio feed.


45 posted on 04/17/2013 7:43:49 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: ArmstedFragg
Close to 11000 people listening to the McLennan County radio feed.

And 547 in the chat. Been a very busy two days.

46 posted on 04/17/2013 7:48:08 PM PDT by amom
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To: FortWorthPatriot

The other tank on fire?


47 posted on 04/17/2013 7:48:47 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: ArmstedFragg

The other hydrous oxide tank on fire....


48 posted on 04/17/2013 7:50:38 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: kristinn

Willie Nelson’s hometown, I think.


49 posted on 04/17/2013 7:51:09 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: kristinn

What is it with April?


50 posted on 04/17/2013 7:53:08 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (What has the GOP done today to gain your support in 2014?)
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To: lonestar
Willie Nelson’s hometown, I think.

No, Abbott.

51 posted on 04/17/2013 7:53:53 PM PDT by re_nortex
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To: Strategerist

There’s a big difference between an accident and an intentional terrorist attack.

Both are tragedies, but one is murder. That makes a difference in coverage.

Let’s just hope this was an accident.

West is just up the road from the Branch Davidian compound, which burned on April 19, 1993, twenty years ago this week.

This is crazy week.


52 posted on 04/17/2013 7:56:08 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Jedidah

If I get blown apart because someone screwed up at a fertilizer plant, I think I’ll feel about the same as I would if I was blown apart by a terrorist bomb.


53 posted on 04/17/2013 7:58:17 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: re_nortex

You’re right! How close?


54 posted on 04/17/2013 7:58:44 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Jedidah

Live coverage ....

http://www.wfaa.com/video?id=139367478&sec=553117

Triage at football stadium. Dozens of ambulances.


55 posted on 04/17/2013 7:59:07 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: kristinn

Just reported that a nursing home has collapsed.

Hilcrest Hospital in Waco told to expect at least one hundred patients.

Pray for these people!


56 posted on 04/17/2013 7:59:12 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: Jrabbit

“Son in Arlington “felt” the explosion. Amazing. Nursing home and apt. complex on fire...”

I’m in Kennedale and felt it too but had no idea what it was. Yeesh.


57 posted on 04/17/2013 7:59:39 PM PDT by FAA
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To: kristinn

Wow... Sounds enormous. Prayers up.


58 posted on 04/17/2013 7:59:47 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: kristinn

Looks like a nuclear explosion.


59 posted on 04/17/2013 8:00:35 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Jrabbit

Usual fog of war... Multiple CP’s, unassigned resources, etc.


60 posted on 04/17/2013 8:01:55 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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