We are getting info from Firefighters in Texas of a major fertilizer plant fire and explosion that occurred in the town of West, which is 20 miles north of Waco, in McLennan County.
We have been advised that West Firefighters were initially dispatched to the plant earlier in the evening after an earlier fire rekindled. The explosion was reported at around 1950 hours in an urgent radio call from the scene of the fire at West Fertilizer at 1471 Jerry Mashek Dr. just off Interstate 35. Residents 60+ miles away reported hearing the explosion.
Naturally, the concern is that the Firefighters were operating on the scene at the time of the explosion. Right now, reports are that several buildings are on fire, destroyed and a nearby nursing home was damaged. There are also reports that people were trapped in the nursing home as well as in an apartment building.