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FILE - In this April 18, 2013 file photo, smoke rises near a fertilizer plant that exploded earlier in West, Texas, the night before. Four weeks after the explosion, investigators have yet to announce...
FILE - In this April 18, 2013 file photo, smoke rises near a fertilizer plant that exploded earlier in West, Texas, the night before. Four weeks after the explosion, investigators have yet to announce what prompted the fire and touched off the massive explosion that killed 14 people. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File

This file aerial photo shows the remains of a nursing home, left, apartment complex, center, and fertilizer plant, right, destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas on April 17.
This file aerial photo shows the remains of a nursing home, left, apartment complex, center, and fertilizer plant, right, destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas on April 17.
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In this May 2, 2013 photo, Frank Patterson, coordinator of the Waco-McLennan County Office of Emergency Management and now the incident commander at West, answers question during a press conference in...
In this May 2, 2013 photo, Frank Patterson, coordinator of the Waco-McLennan County Office of Emergency Management and now the incident commander at West, answers question during a press conference in Waco, Texas about the explosion at a West, Texas fertilizer plant. Four weeks after the blinding blast, investigators have yet to announce what prompted the fire and touched off the massive explosion that killed 14 people. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte)
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FILE - In this April 25, 2013 file photo, an honor guard stands in front of caskets prior to a memorial service in Waco, Texas for first responders who died in a April 17 fertilizer plant explosion in...
FILE - In this April 25, 2013 file photo, an honor guard stands in front of caskets prior to a memorial service in Waco, Texas for first responders who died in a April 17 fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. Four weeks later, investigators have yet to announce what prompted the fire and touched off the massive explosion that killed 14 people. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

West Firefighters Focused on Evacuations, Cooling Tanks

WEST, Texas (AP) — When they saw 30-foot flames licking the sky inside a massive fertilizer plant, firefighters in this tiny Texas town rushed to evacuate nearby buildings and raced to spray water on tanks of chemicals, hoping to prevent a catastrophe. They didn't know, and probably could not...

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West Firefighters Focused on Evacuations, Cooling Tanks

Federal authorities may release some findings on Thursday, the one month anniversary of the deadly blast.

News • May 15th, 2013
Smoke Forces Evacuation of White House West Wing

An overheated piece of equipment in a mechanical room forced the evacuation of the West Wing of the White House Saturday morning.

News • May 11th, 2013
Ore. Smoke Jumpers Land in Pot Plant Garden

May 10--A team of smoke jumpers fighting fires in the Applegate unknowingly dropped into a 1,500-plant marijuana garden this week, sheriff's officials said. The locally-based smoke jumpers parachuted into the garden as they were searching for...

News • May 10th, 2013
N.H. Teens, Off-Duty Firefighter Make Fire Rescues

Teens who had just finished football practice, and a firefighter who went to pick up his son from the practice spotted a large apartment fire and then went to work helping people out of the structure.

News • May 10th, 2013
Gas Line Ruptures in Tenn. Complex 100 Evacuated

About 100 people were briefly evacuated Friday morning after a pickup struck a gas meter at an Oak Ridge apartment complex, rupturing a 2-inch natural gas line.

News • May 10th, 2013
Toddler, Two Others Die in Ky. Mobile Home Fire

Three lives were lost in a mobile home fire in Grayson County, including a 1-year-old boy, his father and a family friend.

News • May 9th, 2013
Calif. Police Chopper Used to Retrieve Fire Hose

A Glendale police helicopter hauled away several hundred feet of the water hoses used last week to fight a 75-acre blaze in Glenoaks Canyon.

News • May 9th, 2013
Fire Takes Out Wyoming Town's Only Store, Gas Station

Chugwater's only convenience store and gas station was destroyed by fire after a car crashed into the building, taking out the only business of its kind for miles around.

News • May 9th, 2013
Pa. Town Seeks Options as Volunteer Dept. Fizzles Out

Braddock Hills officials say the town's volunteer fire department is not providing fire protection and they're looking to neighbors for help with fire service.

News • May 9th, 2013
Small Helicopter Crashes in Downtown Honolulu

No one was seriously injured when a small helicopter crashed in front of a fire station in Honolulu

News • May 9th, 2013
Fire at Pennsylvania Strip Club Ruled Arson

A shuttered strip club in Allentown burned Wednesday and authorities are saying it was intentionally set.

News • May 9th, 2013
Fire That Killed Calif. Family Blamed on Power Strip

An overloaded power strip and extension cord is the suspected cause of a fire in a Cloverdale double-wide mobile home that killed a couple and their young son.

News • May 9th, 2013
Anhydrous Ammonia Tanker Truck Collides With Train in Minn.

A collision between a semi truck carrying anhydrous ammonia and a train sent four people to the hospital and caused the evacuation of an elementary school in Murdock.

News • May 8th, 2013
Fire Badly Damages Landmark Calif. Bakery, Restaurant

Fire caused heavy damage to Merritt Bakery and Restaurant in Oakland on Wednesday morning.

News • May 8th, 2013
Detroit Firefighters Respond Railroad Hazmat Call

The Detroit Fire Department is on the scene at the CSX Railroad facility in southwest Detroit this morning for a reported hazardous materials situation.

News • May 8th, 2013

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