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We have verified the times are different from what we first thought. fire call came in at 7:29 local time. the west fire department responded to that call. it was in the process of working an akctive fire at the fertilizr plant. at 7:53 p.m. we got the first call of an explosion at the plant. those of you that have seen the video understand the devastating effects of that explosion. it was a significant explosion. i have talked to the troops that are on the ground there now that were going door ...

Their resources will start going house to house and work to turn up any deaths that have happened because of the explosion. i will take questions let me call on you please and speak loud enough so i can hear. >> why call this a crime scene from the beginning, why not a different way. >> better crawl it a crime scene and industrial accident. we always start looking at worse case scenarios. thats what we are doing here. i can tell you i have heard no indications that this was anything other than a...

High alert following the events of boston this week. it is important to point out the mayor of this community believes this was nothing more than an accident. this was not intentional. obviously a lot of people jump to conclusion and your mientd races about what we have been dealing with in the wake of the boston marathon attack. the mayor saying this was strictly an accident because there was a fire burning at the fertilizer plant near some anhydrous ammonia tanks. and then right there on the f...

In the town of west texas which could mean more areas might have to be evacuated due to the possibility of toxic fumes which were unleashed by this blast. >> anhydrous ammonia. maria molina joins us with the weather. i was speak to go you earlier, winds could be a problem. any rain could help. you were mentioning the possibility of lightening which would not be a good thing. >> lightening would not be a good thing. also looking at the possibility some of these storms that could be impacting this...

>> well, i was working in the kitchen at the steakhouse where i work at, the -- one of the waitresses said there was fire departments flying past, so the staff went outside to the streets to look down see where it was coming from what was going on. we looked down there we saw the fire a couple blocks away, the boss told us that we were going to close down early due to what was going on and everything. as me and joey the guy that i work with, we walked into the kitchen to go and cloels everything...

Patrick stanton. he drastically changed the time line of what happened here. originally the police stated the first calls of a fire at that plant came in around 6:00 p.m. lo local time in texas. the explosion happened two hours later at 8:00 p.m. he dramatically revised that. the first call of the fire didnt come in until 7:29 and the explosion happened at 7:53 just 24 minutes later which explains why their efforts to evacuate people from the area were not completely successful. so the fire star...

Ammonia tanks. as we know that is an extremely volatile chemical. one would assume that if there was concern with the firefighters that would have been relaid out and they may have tried to move some people that were very close to this they would have tried to move them away in an effort to keep them safe. but i have not physically heard that just yet. we should point out there is a press conference that is scheduled, the next one at 6:00 a.m. local 7:00 a.m. eastern. we can hope to get a little...

Decimated. you have an apartment complex that has 50 units also said to be nothing but a skeleton at this point and you had 50 homes. all of these were attempted to be evacuated. once the fire officials got there and realized there was a fire in this fertilizer plant and the potential for an explosion they started to evacuate people. apparently some people were still there when the explosion happened. some people saw the fire and drove toward it to see what was going on. they were in their cars ...

I would like to mention again not only have we had local fire, rescue, police, medical services but we have had assistance from the dallas fort worth metroplex as well. there has been an outpouring of support from law enforcement, fire, medical, red cross is here. from my understanding the governmental agencies are here sa assisting. fema has been aware. all of those issues will work out at a certain point in time. our main goal and main function is to rescue those we can rescue and get them the...

25 miles an hour right now. it is blowing to the south. there is concern, because we have some severe storms headed our way if you can believe that. that is only going to complicate the search and rescue and search and recovery missions that are underway as we speak. there is concern the wind will shift in the opposite direction, shift to the north. that means those toxic fumes would blow north and people on the north side of town would have to be evacuated. now the concern is people on the sout...