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Away to the waco area, as you mentioned, lacerations, cuts, those type of injuries. these were people a couple of miles from the blast scene. anybody who was at that blast scene -- i don't know if you just saw that video we just showed. any chance somebody fighting a fire and is right up there on those flames could survive something like that? >> you never know. so you want to keep your hope. i have not seen the video of what took place there. but you hope that people who survived the blast itself, they were evacuated quickly. what you want to do with an explosion of ammonia, you want to get p...

>> with a blast, you have to first think about the injuries from the blast itself, and so you'd be looking there for burns. you could be looking at broken bones, injuries to soft tissue, just from the explosion. when you add in the chemical ammonia, and you worry about what kind of breathing protection people have who are really close to that blast. ammonia can have a number of different impacts on your body. it's very irritating and corrosive. we've all smelled ammonia and know how hard it is to just smell that at very low levels. at high levels, ammonia can be very damaging to your respirato...