j_k_redtail
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Kid's right... time to go. Wow.
Explosions reported at a fertilizer plant just outside Waco, Texas
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Kid's right... time to go. Wow.
Ugh wow. I was not expecting that.
maquiladora
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Live coverage from the ground here now.
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Explosion-Rocks-Fertilizer-Plant-During-Fire-203508011.html
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Explosion-Rocks-Fertilizer-Plant-During-Fire-203508011.html
deejay8595
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WOW!!
Holy shit
BlazingDarkness
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The football field (original evac point) is now being evacuated.
thenight11
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BuzzFeed News ‏@BuzzFeedNews 1m
BREAKING: CBS 11: Entire town of West Texas under evacuation; toxic fumes may be spreading south. (@NewsBreaker)
BREAKING: CBS 11: Entire town of West Texas under evacuation; toxic fumes may be spreading south. (@NewsBreaker)
the whole town?!? Holy crap
I was about to ask about the fumes.
Wow. Zoning laws. What are they...
Holy fuck.
It's not clear as to how this happened.
Devolution
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Honestly I bet there are plenty of homes around fertilizer plants around the nation. About 10 years ago there was a huge home development upswing, some places with tainted land in and around my town were developed. The people had to sign papers not to plant shit and eat it =/.
Poltergust
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InsaneZero
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Holy shit. That's just a large line of everything just being flattened.
Do you understand how immature comments like these are?
Baraka in the White House
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Yeah fertilizer and fire is a fucking scary combination.
HalfBakedProphet
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I'll go ahead and say this is 99.9% likely an accident. Leave it alone
Wow, I was not expecting that.
speculawyer
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Damn it . . . Boston, Ricin, this explosion . . . I gotta stop looking at the news. I can't handle it. :-(
Kacho
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Scary.
shadyspace
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Most definitely an accident but pretty goddamn crazy that all these things that would dominate the news cycle alone are happening simultaneously
Demagoging is the creed of people like them. After the CNN faux pas, I'm genuinely curious before it inevitably gets politicized for the wrong reasons.
Zoe
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BlazingDarkness
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That news reporter is like, a few hundred yards from the explosion site... get out of there you moran.
Still, putting two schools right next to it and then a hospital on the next block seems like criminal negligence to me.
Wind is blowing SSE. Directly toward me (College Station). Wish it wasn't so windy tonight.
I think our saving grace is the front that is set to arrive tomorrow morning.
HerbertFish
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wat
GillianSeed79
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Man, I could be wrong, but I'm just assuming a lot of the first-responders - EMS and firefighters - are probably volunteers. I'm sure there are paid guys in Waco, but, in a lot of rural areas, most of the emergency personnel are all-volunteers. I have to imagine that, at least for some of these guys, they have family that might be injured or homes that are on fire/destroyed.
I pray the death toll isn't too big and the hospitals don't get overwhelmed/the injured can be treated quickly and saved.
I pray the death toll isn't too big and the hospitals don't get overwhelmed/the injured can be treated quickly and saved.
abstract alien
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Such a terrible thing :-(
I'm guessing it's unlikely to be a real threat, especially with the rain/drizzle throughout the night, but large explosions like that can launch debris fairly high into the atmosphere and carry for quite a ways.
Hope the second tank doesn't end up blowing. Gotta worry about the emergency personnel in the area in addition to any civilians in the area.
JacksUsername
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Holy shit at that video...terrifying.
Alaskanbullworm
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Confirmed fatalities so far seem to be 5 firefighters and 1 police officer
thenight11
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KXXV-TV reporting five firefighters, one police officer dead due to explosion at fertilizer plant in West, TX.
HalfBakedProphet
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oh man
speculawyer
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:-( There were probably lots of First responders there on the scene battling that fire. They probably did not fare well. :-(
NihonTiger90
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Interstate 35-W is closed between Waco and Dallas, it sounds like.
Well, I'm not sure what you're getting at. The nearest school there is two kilometers away while in Waco it's less than 200 meters. I'm sure it happens around the world, but that doesn't make it any less stupid.
Holy crap that's fucking awful
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