Black People : Hundreds believed injured in Texas fertilizer plant blast

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By Regina Davis
WEST, Texas (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were likely injured in a fiery explosion on Wednesday night at a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, that damaged or destroyed numerous buildings including a school and nursing home, authorities said.
The blast was reported at about 8 p.m. CDT (0100 GMT on Thursday) in West, a town of some 2,700 people about 80 miles south of Dallas and 20 miles north of Waco.
"It's a lot of devastation. I've never seen anything like this," said McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara. "It looks like a war zone with all the debris."
There was no immediate official word on what sparked the explosion as emergency personnel assisted victims and doused the flames.
A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, D.L. Wilson, told Reuters the blast had probably caused "hundreds of casualties" and damaged many homes. He added that a nearby nursing home had collapsed from the explosion and that people were believed trapped inside.
McNamara said the nursing home and much of the center of town had been evacuated, and that residences near the explosion had been leveled.
The air in town remained thick with smoke more than two hours after the explosion, and the area around the blast site was littered with shards of wood, bricks and glass.
A Reuters reporter observed that a nearby middle school and several homes were severely burned. Dallas television station WFAA reported from

http://news.yahoo.com/police-report-fertilizer-plant-explosion-near-waco-texas-015859240.html
 
By Regina Davis
WEST, Texas (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were likely injured in a fiery explosion on Wednesday night at a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, that damaged or destroyed numerous buildings including a school and nursing home, authorities said.
The blast was reported at about 8 p.m. CDT (0100 GMT on Thursday) in West, a town of some 2,700 people about 80 miles south of Dallas and 20 miles north of Waco.
"It's a lot of devastation. I've never seen anything like this," said McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara. "It looks like a war zone with all the debris."
There was no immediate official word on what sparked the explosion as emergency personnel assisted victims and doused the flames.
A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, D.L. Wilson, told Reuters the blast had probably caused "hundreds of casualties" and damaged many homes. He added that a nearby nursing home had collapsed from the explosion and that people were believed trapped inside.
McNamara said the nursing home and much of the center of town had been evacuated, and that residences near the explosion had been leveled.
The air in town remained thick with smoke more than two hours after the explosion, and the area around the blast site was littered with shards of wood, bricks and glass.
A Reuters reporter observed that a nearby middle school and several homes were severely burned. Dallas television station WFAA reported from

http://news.yahoo.com/police-report-fertilizer-plant-explosion-near-waco-texas-015859240.html



Saw that, and I'm still shaking my head, figuring how a fertilizer plant has that kind of fire power, wow:wow:

Peace In,
 
Fertilizer is one of the easiest things to use for a bomb, according to my military training....particularly animal fertilizer, which it probably was.


Okay, got it ... thanks,




Ammonium nitrate is an important fertilizer with the NPK rating 34-0-0 (34% nitrogen).[3] It is less concentrated than urea (45-0-0) giving ammonium nitrate a slight transportation disadvantage. Ammonium nitrate's advantage over urea is that it is more stable and does not lose nitrogen to the atmosphere. During warm weather, urea should only be applied before imminent rain in order to minimize nitrogen loss.[4][5]


Ammonium nitrate


The chemical compoundammonium nitrate, the nitrate ofammonia with the chemical formula NH4NO3, is a white crystalline solid at room temperature and standard pressure. It is commonly used inagriculture as a high-nitrogenfertilizer, and it has also been used as an oxidizing agent inexplosives, including improvised explosive devices. It is the main component of ANFO, a popular explosive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate
 

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