12 bodies recovered after Texas blast GALLERY This thursday, april 18, 2013
aerial photo shows the remains of a nursing home, left, more information
apartment complex, center, and fertilizer plant, right, destroyed by an
explosion in west, texas.Rescuers searched the smoking remnants for survivors of
wednesday night's thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking
smashed houses and apartments for anyone still trapped in debris while the
community awaited word on the number of dead.More than 160 people were hurt.
Officials did not identify those killed, but the dead were believed to include a
small group of firefighters and other firstresponders who rushed toward the west
fertilizer co.To battle a fire that apparently touched off the blast. View a
photo gallery of the scene.>> Texas department of public safety sgt.Jason
reyes said he could not confirm how many firstresponders had been killed.Efforts
to search the devastated buildings were continuing, he added. The wednesday
evening explosion was strong enough to register as a small earthquake and could
be heard for many miles across the texas prairie.It demolished nearly everything
for several blocks around the plant.More than 200 people were hurt. Even before
investigators disclosed the fatalities, the names of the dead were becoming
known throughout the community of 2, 800.Townspeople gathered late thursday for
a service at st.Mary of the assumption catholic church. "We don't know what to
think,"The rev.Ed karasek told those gathered at the service. Officials did not
identify those killed, but the dead were believed to include a small group of
firefighters and other firstresponders who rushed toward the west fertilizer
co.To battle a fire that apparently touched off the blast. View www.bridesmaidressesonline.co.uk
a photo gallery of the scene.>> Texas department of public safety
sgt.Jason reyes said he could not confirm how many firstresponders had been
killed.Efforts to search the devastated buildings were continuing, he added. The
wednesday evening explosion was strong enough to register as a small earthquake
and could be heard for many miles across the texas prairie.It demolished nearly
everything for several blocks around the plant.More than 200 people were hurt.
Even before investigators disclosed the fatalities, the names of the dead were
becoming known throughout the community of 2, 800.Townspeople gathered late
thursday for a service at st.Mary of the assumption Sheath
Wedding Dresses catholic church. "We don't know what to think,"The
rev.Ed karasek told those gathered at the service. "Our town of west will never
be the same, but we will persevere. " Christina rodarte, who has lived in west
for 27 years, said"Everyone knows the firstresponders, because anytime there's
anything going on, the fire department is right (more Prom
dresses here) there, all volunteer. " The only fatality who has been
publicly identified was kenny harris, a 52yearold captain in the dallas fire
department who lived south of west.He was offduty at the time but responded to
the fire to help, according to a statement from the city of dallas. Brenda covey
once lived in the nowleveled apartment complex across the street from the plant.
On thursday, she learned that two men she knew were dead, both of them volunteer
firefighters.One had been the best man at her nephew's wedding. "Word gets
around quick in a small town,"Said covey, who has lived all her life in and
around west. Firefighter darryl hall, from thorndale, about 50 miles away from
west, was one of the rescue workers helping with the housetohouse search.
"People's lives are devastated here.It's hard to imagine,"Hall said. Federal
investigators and the state fire marshal's office planned to begin inspecting
the blast site friday to collect evidence that may point to a cause. Franceska
perot, a spokeswoman for the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and
explosives, said investigators would begin at the perimeter of the explosion and
work inward toward the destroyed fertilizer company. It was clear was that the
town's landscape would never be the same.An apartment complex was badly
shattered, a school set ablaze and a nursing home left in ruins. Garage doors
were ripped off homes.Fans hung askew from twisted porches.At west intermediate
school, which was close to the blast site, all of the building's windows were
blown out, as well as the cafeteria. The fertilizer facility stores and
distributes anhydrous ammonia, a fertilizer that can be directly injected into
soil.It also mixes other fertilizers.
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