Several homes are on fire, and residents of a nearby retirement home are trapped inside after an explosion at a fertilizer plant exploded in West, Texas, a small town near Waco. The cause of the explosion and extent of the damage is unclear, but the local Department of Public Safety says that several people are severely injured. The explosion could be felt as far away as Dallas, which is nearly 100 miles away.
Numerous buildings were reported to be on fire, including West Middle School and a nearby nursing home. A dispatcher calling for multiple ambulances said, “We do have a lot of injured here.”
"There's nothing I can tell you other than that we've had an explosion," the West, Texas Fire Department told the press. "There are injuries, casualties, it's terrible." The CEO of the local Hillcrest Hospital said that they anticipate about 100 injured people.
“It was a small fire and then water got sprayed the ammonia nitrate, and it exploded just like the Oklahoma City bomb,” said Jason Shelton, a clerk at the Czech Best Western Hotel in West. “I live about a thousand feet from it and it blew my screen door off and my back windows. There’s houses leveled that were right next to it. We've got people injured and possibly dead.”
Reports suggest that a person with dark skin was spotted within five thousand feet of the plant just days before the explosion. Coincidence?
This is probably an accident, right?Who knows, I bet it would be difficult to do forensics anyway so \o/
This week, man, and it's barely even Thursday. :-\My wife's grandma died last Tuesday..... on my son's 7th birthday. Found out my wife's cousin can't come to the funeral cause she's in California with her girlfriend. She is getting divorced soon and they have 3 kids. The funeral was Monday. Same day as the bombing. So it's been more than a week for me. :-\
just thinking about the lies that will be perpetrated by the firm and its insurers to avoid proper compensation to the victims is preemptively infuriating me, assuming this was an accident
This week really is turning into a season of 24 way too fast :tocry
How damned many times do we have to see these images and fail to connect cause and effect? Americans continue to elect and tolerate politicians that tell them everything is fine and we don't need to invest in infrastructure and safety and there is too much regulation. There is no reason we can't have businesses that are both profitable and safe. But we have to be willing to spend the money to fund the agencies that provide the oversight. That's not government meddling; that's common sense. Elected leadership does not hesitate to spend your tax dollars on fear driven industries like the TSA or defense contractors, but a few inspectors or laws to keep a nursing home away from an ammonium nitrate fertilizer plant is considered too much government?
And now we have to endure those same politicians who are quick with the budget cut running to the site of the tragedy to claim empathy and understanding. How dare they? Why do we never demand accountability until people are dead? The owner of the plant was quoted on television as saying, "This kind of thing just isn't supposed to happen here." It isn't supposed to happen anywhere.
We just let it.
:ronpaul
chicago this morning
(http://i.imgur.com/HNLGCT4.jpg)
end times are nigh
But yea, thank fucking god this didn't happen on a school day
(http://i.imgur.com/JtO0Qyq.jpg)(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EU-pdfktde4/UFNy0fyZ_WI/AAAAAAAAFNc/x8w44ZQ0Z24/s1600/senator.gif)
freedom from zoning regulation
But yea, thank fucking god this didn't happen on a school day
(http://i.imgur.com/JtO0Qyq.jpg)
freedom from zoning regulation
But yea, thank fucking god this didn't happen on a school day
:rofl You have to be shitting me. "Let's build our community around this big bomb!" :derp
i can't even imagine the smell
i can't even imagine the smell
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/20/us-usa-explosion-regulation-idUSBRE93J09N20130420
:comeon :ufup
i can't even imagine the smell
It isn't Waco but El Paso is the worst smelling place I've been to. Passed by literally 10 or so miles of cows taking cow poopies.
my mom's parents lived in Corpus Christi. I could always remember we were close because of the stench of the oil refineries.Corpus Christi? :lol What was that about taking care of the earth?