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And the dallas hazardous materials team to determine the threat. >> our first interest when we arrived was to determine what we could based on ground level runoff and even the airborne particulates. we had three or four tests that we did initially. we checked the smoke. our testing on site indicated we had ammonium products, we had ketones, aldehydes. what you would typically see in any large industrial batching plant. >> while the team checks for toxins, local officials decide they can't afford to take any chances. hundreds of students from a school only a quarter mile away are taken by bus t...

A chemical fire turns day into night. and sends a community searching for cover. >> quite frankly, it looked like we had hell on earth down there. >> october 4th, 2011. a fire breaks out 30 miles south of dallas at the magnablend chemical plant in waxahachie, texas. the blaze ignites thousands of gallons of liquid chemicals and within minutes transforms acres of buildings into a sea of flames. >> once it got to the products, typically the mineral oil and the hydrocarbon based products petroleum products, that's going to light off and continue until there's no more fire load. >> fireballs explo...

And it's the job of ted padgett and the dallas hazardous materials team to determine the threat. >> our first interest when we arrived was to determine what we could based on ground level runoff and even the airborne particulates. we had three or four tests that we did initially. we checked the smoke. our testing on site indicated we had ammonium products, we had ketones, aldehydes. what you would typically see in any large industrial batching plant. >> while the team checks for toxins, local officials decide they can't afford to take any chances. hundreds of students from a school only a quar...

A chemical fire turns day into night. >> oh! and sends a community searching for cover. >> quite frankly, it looked like we had hell on earth down there. >> october 4, 2011. a fire breaks out 30 miles south of dallas at the magnablend chemical plant in waxahachie, texas. the blaze ignites thousands of gallons of liquid chemicals and within minutes transforms acres of buildings into a sea of flames. >> once it got to the products, typically the mineral oil and the hydrocarbon based products petroleum-based products will ignite and that's going to continue until there's no more fire load. >> fir...

Deadly toxins into the community. and it's the job of ted padgett and the dallas hazardous materials team to determine the threat. >> our first interest when we arrived was to determine what we could based on ground level runoff and even the airborne particulates. we had three or four tests that we did initially. we checked the smoke. our testing on site indicated we had ammonium products, we had ketones, aldehydes. what you would typically see in any large industrial batching plant. >> while the team checks for toxins, local officials decide they can't afford to take any chances. hundreds of ...