Post date: Apr 18, 2013 12:52:33 PM
Dramatic video shows explosion at fertilizer plant in Texas.
WEST, TEXAS, UNITED STATES (APRIL 17, 2013) (NBC) - A massive explosion and fire ripped through a fertilizer plant in Texas town late on Wednesday (April 17), injuring more than 100 people, leveling dozens of homes and spewing toxic fumes that forced evacuations of half the community, authorities said.
They said an undetermined number of people had been killed, and that the death toll was expected to rise as search teams combed through the rubble of the West Fertilizer Co. plant and surrounding homes.A cell phone video shows the plant burning and then suddenly a loud explosion.
The video was shot by a man as he sat in his car watching the flames with a young child in the back seat.
After the explosion you can hear the little child screaming in the background.
The blast, apparently preceded by a fire at the plant, 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.