State Agencies Never Considered Safety Of West Fertilizer Plant
A total of 28 state and federal agencies are investigating why the West Fertilizer Company's plant caught fire and exploded two weeks ago.
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A total of 28 state and federal agencies are investigating why the West Fertilizer Company's plant caught fire and exploded two weeks ago.
In West, professional restoration companies and contractors are now being allowed into the hardest hit neighborhood closest to the fertilizer plant.
The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms is investigating the blast along with the Texas State Fire Marshal.
More entertainers will be making music in support of a Central Texas town decimated in the deadly fertilizer plant explosion. Officials with the Texas Thunder Festival announced that next month's performances will benefit emergency responders and schools in West.
Authorities absolved the firefighters of any blame after some speculation that water used in fighting the original fire at the West Fertilizer plant may have triggered the explosion.
Complete coverage of nearly three hour memorial service dedicated to 12 first responders who lost their lives in West Fertilizer plant explosion.
It started with a procession that included dozens of fire trucks and cars and pickups filled with men and women in uniform. The memorial service for those killed in the West Fertilizer Company explosion was held at the Ferrell Center on the Baylor University campus.
On April 17, an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, leveled part of the small town. Most of the victims were first responders from fire departments in West and other nearby towns that were on the scene trying to control the fire that preceded the blast.
In the wake of the fertilizer explosion in West, some residents who live near The American Plant Food Corp. in Fort Worth have expressed concern; despite the fact that it in no way resembles West Fertilizer Co.
Insurance experts are estimating that damage caused by the fertilizer plant explosion in West could have losses topping $100 million.
On Wednesday, April 24 it will be one week since the devastating fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West. That date also means it will have been seven days since some residents were allowed anywhere near their homes.
State investigators visited the West Fertilizer plant twice in the weeks leading up to a deadly explosion. Records show the plant manager wanted them there most recentl, to investigate a product that didn't look right.
CBS 11 has learned state regulators visited West Fertilizer Co. twice in April. The Office of the Texas State Chemist went to the plant the first week of the month and then came out again after a complaint was filed.
State and federal investigators continued to comb through the rubble in West Monday -- looking for clues to what touched off a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant last week. The blast killed 14 people and leveled dozens of homes.
The White House says President Barack Obama and First Lady Michele Obama will attend a memorial service for victims of the fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West, Texas.
Students in West are heading back to class, just over four days after a fertilizer plant explosion nearly leveled the town, destroyed homes and injured hundreds of residents.
When Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott visited the devastation in West following a fertilizer plant explosion, he looked very gubernatorial. And that might not be an accident.
Kenneth "Luckey" Harris, a captain with the Dallas Fire Department who died in Wednesday's fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, will be remembered by friends and family at a funeral service this week.
Weary residents who were evacuated from their neighborhoods in West Wednesday evening were allowed back home Saturday. The long line of people snaked their way through the first loosening of check points in days. All had obtained a special mark on their cars to get in. Only homeowners who lived further away from the deadly blast site where a fertilizer plant blew up were allowed back. This is "Stage-1" of what has turned into a long week of loss, transition and ultimately hope for the small town.
People around the nation had a strong reaction after a fertilizer plant explosion destroyed homes and took lives in the small town of West.
Officials are telling residents displaced by the massive fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West that tanks on site are leaking gas and causing small fires.
There were no sprinklers. No firewalls. No water deluge systems. Inspections were rare at the fertilizer company in West that exploded and killed at least 14 people. This is not unusual.
Some North Texas Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) cadets have launched a grassroots effort to raise money for victims of the explosions at the fertilizer plant in West, Texas.
A national fund has been established to assist the survivors and coworkers of the fire and EMS personnel who died as a result of Wednesday's fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.
A veterinary team is tending to six search and rescue dogs in the Central Texas town of West along with several dozen injured and wayward animals following a fertilizer plant explosion.
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