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Firefighters unaccounted for after fertilizer plant explosion
April 18, 2013, West, Tex. - Rescue workers searched rubble early Thursday for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town that killed as many as 15 people, including three to five volunteer firefighters and a law enforcement officer, and injured more than 160 others. The blast left the factory a smouldering ruin and levelled homes and businesses for blocks in every direction. The Toronto Star reports.
April 18, 2013
By The Toronto Star
April 18, 2013, West, Tex. – Rescue workers searched rubble early
Thursday for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas
town
that killed as many as 15 people, including three to five volunteer
firefighters and a law enforcement officer, and injured more than 160
others. The
blast left the factory a smouldering ruin and levelled homes and
businesses for blocks in every direction. The Toronto Star reports. | READ MORE
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