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Massive explosion near Waco,Texas. Fire, homes leveled, near fertilizer plant

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#1 ·
A new unfolding story. This has potential to be a major disaster. Early reports are not good at all. No idea what caused this yet. It was a massive explosion around 8pm. Some say that a fire started and caused a tank to blow up. A small town of 2,500 north of Waco.

the story thus far

Not much known yet. Apparently a 3 mile radius has been set up around the explosion site.
 
#3 ·
What an incredibly frightening sight. This is catastrophic for Waco.
 
#4 ·
Some stuff so far. It's still early so some of this may be dramatized or exaggerated but maybe not.

-The FAA has put a no-fly zone into effect 3 miles around West and below 3,000 feet

-5 fire fighters and 1 police officer died in the blast

-Director of West EMS believes there are 60-70 dead

-75-100 homes and businesses completely destroyed

-Frisco FD called in from over 100 miles away

-West has a population of 2,847, there are hundreds that were injured in the blast.

-Apr 16, 1947 581 people were killed in a fertilizer plant explosion in Texas City

-An information hotline was set up for concerned friends and relatives at 254-202-1100

-Explosion occurred at 7:50 pm local time

-"Earthquakes" reported in south Arlington, over 60 miles away

-66 admitted to Hillcrest Hospital with 40 being critical

-Providence Hospital in Waco has received 22 patients

-9 helicopters landed on the scene to evacuate injured

-West Mayor reports that buildings within 5 blocks suffered major damage

-The fire can be smelled as far as west Fort Worth - over 70 miles away.

-Parkland Hospital in Dallas received 2 patients, 1 by air and 1 by ambulance.
 
#6 ·
I sincerely hope conspiracy theorists don't label this as false-flagged, like they do for most serious national events (i.e., just recently, the Boston Marathon explosion).
 
#8 ·
I don't believe this was false-flagged but at least I find it suspicious that two terrible incidents happen within days in the same country.

Omg that video. Hope the nothing permanent happened to the ones filming and that nobody died, though looking at the video it seems unlikely that nobody died... :(
I believe the ones filming are OK as they uploaded the video.
 
#16 ·
Think about this. Could be hundreds injured in a town of just 2,500.

It's just coincidence but pretty eerie that this happened just a few days from the 20th anniversary of the Waco standoff in 93
 
#18 ·
isn there a day in april in usa where lots of bad things have happened recently?
 
#19 ·
April 16-20th

1993: Waco siege.4 killed. David Koresh
1995: Oklahoma City bombings. 168 killed. Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols.
1999: Columbine(Colorado) school shootings. 13 killed. Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris.
2007: Virgina Tech University shootings. 32 killed. Seung-Hui Cho.
2013: Boston marathon bombings. 3 killed. Tsarnaev brothers.
 
#23 ·
i will never understand why places like that are not far far away, we have a few places in here and i dont want to think how many will be killed.


i was the numbers, its Shocking
 
#24 · (Edited)
The entire West, Texas Fire Department. I think it's a volunteer organization as it is in most small towns including my town.



Many of these fallen. :sad:

60 people are still unaccounted for and 12 are confirmed dead.

This small town -- 27 or 28 hundred, but the outlying areas contain more -- has been hard hit.
 
#32 ·
This is an accident and what's remaining is Search & Rescue.

The other is terrorism and is still on going. And it's not 3 people now. 5 people already (one is a suspect and another a policeman) The fugitive is armed and dangerous (including explosive devices) at large in residential area.
 
#41 ·
i didnt know that
i thought this got more media attention bc its the media was live at the marathon nothing more.

the east is more important? why?
 
#38 ·
Also the Boston happenings are more "storybook" and there are villains everyone loves to have a villain in a story.
Plus people know Boston. Nobody knows West,Texas. That's why the media is covering Boston more.
 
#40 ·
:eek:

The fertilizer plant that exploded Wednesday had at least 540,000 pounds of potentially dangerous ammonium nitrate in a storage building, a 2012 company filing with the state health department shows.
That’s more than 100 times the weight of the ammonium nitrate and fuel oil mix that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh used to destroy the Murrah Federal Building 18 years ago Friday.
 
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