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Waco TX explosion
Is anyone following this event? It sounds like a lot of people are critically injured. On my phone ATM so i can't surf the web well to post a news link. Kinda Scarry tho since some said to do a 30 mile evacuation and I live in that range. Please keep the victims in your thoughts :(
First the bombing, then the ricin letters, now this ... dafuq america... :/
I was just reading about this actually, fertilizer plant or something blew up? I hope everything goes ok, sounds like it was just a freak accident I hope. at least its believed to be just a malfunction or w/e rather than pressure cookers...
Purty said: » Is anyone following this event? It sounds like a lot of people are critically injured. On my phone ATM so i can't surf the web well to post a news link. Kinda Scarry tho since some said to do a 30 mile evacuation and I live in that range. Please keep the victims in your thoughts :( Yahoo News said: WEST, Texas (AP) — An explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco Wednesday night injured dozens of people and sent flames shooting high into the night sky, leaving the factory a smoldering ruin and causing major damage to surrounding buildings. The blast at West Fertilizer in West, a community about 20 miles north of Waco, happened shortly before 8 p.m. and could be heard as far away as Waxahachie, 45 miles to the north. There was no immediate word from officials about fatalities or the severity of the explosion, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry said state officials were also waiting for details about the extent of the damage. "We are monitoring developments and gathering information as details continue to emerge about this incident," Perry said in a statement. "We have also mobilized state resources to help local authorities. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of West, and the first responders on the scene." But aerial footage showed fires still smoldering in the ruins of the plant and in several surrounding buildings, and people being treated for injuries on the flood-lit local football field, which had been turned into a staging area for emergency responders. Debby Marak told The Associated Press that when she finished teaching her religion class Wednesday night, she noticed a lot of smoke in the area across town near the plant, which is near a nursing home. She said she drove over to see what was happening, and that when she got there, two boys came running toward her screaming that the authorities ordered everyone out because the plant was going to explode. She said she drove about a block when the blast happened. "It was like being in a tornado," Marak, 58, said by phone. "Stuff was flying everywhere. It blew out my windshield." "It was like the whole earth shook." She drove 10 blocks and called her husband and asked him to come get her. When they got to their home about 2 miles south of town, her husband told her what he'd seen: a huge fireball that rose like "a mushroom cloud." More than two hours after the blast, there were still fires smoldering in what was left of the plant and in others burning nearby. The roof of what appeared to be a housing complex of some kind had collapsed. In aerial footage from NBC's Dallas-Fort Worth affiliate, KXAS, dozens of emergency vehicles could be seen amassed at the scene. Entry into West was slow-going, as the roads were jammed with emergency vehicles rushing in to help out. Authorities set up a staging area on the local high school's football field, which was lit up with floodlights. Ambulances and several dozen injured people could be seen being taken away or seated in wheelchairs as they are treated and await transport. Department of Public Safety troopers were using their squad cars to transport those injured by the blast and fire at the plant in West, a community north of Waco, Gayle Scarbrough, a spokeswoman for the department's Waco office, told television station KWTX. She said six helicopters were also en route to help out. Glenn A. Robinson, the chief executive of Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco, told CNN that his hospital had received 66 injured people for treatment, including 38 who were seriously hurt. He said the injuries included blast injuries, orthopedic injuries, large wounds and a lot of lacerations and cuts. The hospital has set up a hotline for families of the victims to get information, he said. Robinson did not immediately return messages from the AP. American Red Cross crews from across Texas were being sent to the site, the organization said. Red Cross spokeswoman Anita Foster said the group was working with emergency management officials in West to find a safe shelter for residents displaced from their homes. She said teams from Austin to Dallas and elsewhere are being sent to the community north of Waco. A West Fire Department dispatcher said any casualties would be transported to hospitals in Waco, which is about 90 miles north of Austin. The explosion knocked out power to many area customers and could be heard and felt for miles around. Brad Smith, who lives 45 miles north of West in Waxahachie, told the station that he and his wife heard what sounded like a thunderclap. Lydia Zimmerman, told KWTX that she, her husband and daughter were in their garden in Bynum, 13 miles from West, when they heard multiple blasts. "It sounded like three bombs going off very close to us," she said. Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with National Earthquake Information Center of the U.S. Geological Survey, said the explosion did not register on a seismograph because most of the blast's energy dissipated in the atmosphere. In 2001, an explosion at a chemical plant killed 31 people and injured more than 2,000 in Toulouse, France. The blast occurred in a hangar containing 300 tons of ammonium nitrate, which can be used for both fertilizer and explosives. The explosion came 10 days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S., and raised fears at the time it was linked. A 2006 report blamed the blast on negligence. Scaryyy
Wow. Makes action movie explosions seem lame in comparison. Seriously, before you just sit there and watch a building burn, figure out what the building is used for first....
Bahamut.Ravael said: » Wow. Makes action movie explosions seem lame in comparison. This is the first thing EVERYONE thinks when they witness a reasonable explosion. Television and movies are pretty much the worst experiences to draw on in serious situations. Lye said: » Bahamut.Ravael said: » Wow. Makes action movie explosions seem lame in comparison. This is the first thing EVERYONE thinks when they witness a reasonable explosion. Television and movies are pretty much the worst experiences to draw on in serious situations. Thank God we still have video games to help prepare us for real life. Carbuncle.Nibu said: » Lye said: » Bahamut.Ravael said: » Wow. Makes action movie explosions seem lame in comparison. This is the first thing EVERYONE thinks when they witness a reasonable explosion. Television and movies are pretty much the worst experiences to draw on in serious situations. Thank God we still have video games to help prepare us for real life. Yahoo News said: Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with National Earthquake Information Center of the U.S. Geological Survey, said the explosion did not register on a seismograph because most of the blast's energy dissipated in the atmosphere. ![]() Eh? Another picture: ![]() Kind of an explosive week with all of this stuff happening.
Yup. Siren.Kyte said: » Yahoo News said: Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with National Earthquake Information Center of the U.S. Geological Survey, said the explosion did not register on a seismograph because most of the blast's energy dissipated in the atmosphere. ![]() Eh? Another picture: ![]() Is that pic real?! Looks like a damn shroom cloud after a nuclear blast! dafuq I googled it and it was posted on blogs in 2008, I don't think it's current.
Bismarck.Dracondria said: » I googled it and it was posted on blogs in 2008, I don't think it's current. thank god. Ive been at work all day so haven't been watching the news. Central Texas has had a rough half-decade. The IRS building in Austin, the massacre at Fort Hood, and now this. Here's hoping no AHers, their friends, and family had the misfortune of being immediately effected by this.
God speed to anyone who works or knows someone who works for the Baylor and/or Scott & White medical systems or Parkland, etc. Bad week. What else could possibly happen? |
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