Posted on 05/11/2016 12:36:33 PM PDT by bgill
The fire that caused the deadly and destructive fertilizer plant explosion in April 2013 in West Texas was set deliberately, a federal investigator announced early Wednesday afternoon.
"This fire was a criminal act," Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Robert Elder said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Wow. Just wow. It really doesn’t get any better than that.
I remembered when it happened, my first thought was “Oh no, I hope they didn’t destroy The Czech Stop, where I always get my Kolaches.”
With the extent of the destruction, it must have been difficult to make the intentional fire determination. Understandable that it took a long time but “years”?? Plus if there is no idea who did it, that’s also odd. I still feel for the towns people. So many of the best citizens dead.
It’s a presidential election year. The Brass at ATF want’s to be keeping their job so they pull a rabbit out their butt.
Yep. I need to head back down to WestFest again one of these years.
I heard an interview this afternoon that they spent 2 million dollars in the investigation even rebuilding parts of the plant to understand how this happened...or to eliminate scenarios to rule out an accident...
Nothing but a criminal act could account for the explosion....
My gut tells me the length and cost of the investigation was driven by the insurance company trying to limit damage payouts since if it was an accident verses a criminal act....the damages paid would be substantially higher...
All accidents are preventable, criminal acts aren’t...
When they want to hurry (tranny bathrooms, gay cakes, Trayvon, Michael Brown etc), they can.
otoh, people would die...
pony express
Which explains why most Texans refer to the town as West comma Texas.
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