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Those requests. >> congress, do we know the circumstances in which the original fire start snd was it an accident? could it have been sabotage? or something more sin instruct her? >> i would not expect sabotage by any stretch of the imagination. that said, i think it's too early to know. there's been a lot of speculation with respect to casualties and cause. i don't want to add any fuel to the fire at this point. i think we need to wait and seep what the facts on the ground show after we have a chance to fuse all of the information together of what happened. >> we understand that there have be...

But when you mix them with fuel, in this case a fire, they can become quite explosive. bud, also, piers, you know, these first responders that you've been talking to, the woman's husband that you've been talking to, they're at increased risk, as well. my guess is wearing respirators and some sort of protection because of the various chemicals including something known as an hydrous ammonia. you should know that this can create a fog-like atmosphere in that area. it can be quite pungent ander tating to the upper airway and to the lungs. it may not have a long-term impact, but it can make some o...

>> i eenl rig'm right now at th center outside of west. i was about two blocks away responding to the fire when it exploded. >> we're getting conflicted reports, but it would seem a very large number of people's properties and homes have been -- >> it's about a five-block radius of the fertilizer plant. >> so how many homes do you think have been flattened in this? >> oh, 60, maybe 80. one school, one nursing home, one apartment. >> and do you expect there have been many people that have died in these homes? >> obviously, yeah, it's a huge explosion. so there's going to be casualties.

About 20, 25 on the way to us right now. >> the death toll at the moment is three people. but we're being told that there are scores of firefighters who >> the information is that there originally are fighting if tire was a fire at this fertilizer who remainin unaccounted for afr plant and fire officers were attending to the fire when exploezed. the explosion. clearly, there are a large number of properties. we've heard 10, 15, to as many as 60 or more that have been completely flattened by the explosion. >>. >> what we were told initially, and presumably, there are many that there had been an...

Surrounding agencies. the whole area is evacuated. if you are somebody who was to live in that area, you would not be allowed in there at all. the only people allowed in here are emergency personnel. you can see some of the fire equipment on the sidewalk, some of the breathing apparatuses used by firefighters. they have preparation for that. if everything goes as planned, but they are not really sure of the plan at this point, but if it goes perfectly firefighters are ready to go in case a fire was to start. they would put it out. but they could take each device out one bay one in a specialize...