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Are against fire codes? >> you are trying to draw a straight line -- >> are you against fire codes or for fire codes? >> i am for letting those counties do it. rather than having one place decide how the rest of us in america are supposed to live. we are at the average. matter of fact, we are below the average on injuries. >> we have far fewer accidents because we believe in reasonable protections for every day people that live or work near them. >> you did sign a bill that would create a substa...

Were okay. many of their neighbors were not. that explosion left a 90-foot-wide crater in west. it was as if a daisy cutter bomb had been dropped on that town. 15 people were killed, more than 200 people were injured. a whole portion of that town was just missing in the wake of that explosion. hundreds of buildings destroyed, or damaged. i mean, given the size of the blast, it is a miracle there were not more than 15 people killed, given that the buildings heavily damaged or totally destroyed by...

Where large quantities of explosive chemicals were stored in their towns. for decades, companies storing significant quantities of potentially hazardous material like explosive fertilizer, they may not have had to cop tend with things like fire codes, but at least they had to report what they had to the state. the state had a database of that information, they would make that information available upon request. reporters, regular citizens. you just had to ask. and when you asked, youd get someth...

And after that apocalyptic fireball in west texas, in 2013, the state did decide to change one thing in texas about storing chemicals like that ammonium nitrate fertilizer that almost wiped one texas town off the map. at that abbott was the attorney general of the state. he decided after the west explosion that the public would no longer be allowed to know where large quantities of explosive chemicals were stored in their towns. for decades, companies storing significant quantities of potentiall...

Evacuation in february where thank god the plant did not go off like a bomb that day. but it did go off like a bomb two months later. and when it did, for anybody nearby, it really was like the freaking end of the world. the reason that that plant full of explosives was in the middle of all those schools and the nursing home and the apartment building was all packed right around it is because there were literally no zoning laws there at all. the only rule about where you could put your house you...