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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 didn't 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 started and it only took 24 minutes for the fire to ignite the anhydrous ammonia and caused that very s...

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 more clarification in terms of what exactly happened in the moment leading up to this blast, guys. ...

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 they caught the scene on video. a huge mushroom cloud that could be seen and felt for many, many mil...

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 medical help they can need and help those people start surviving. >> do you have a number of the st...

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 southern border of the fire that is still burning, not so much at the plant itself as we said, but some ...