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Severe weather front on the way. minutes away, potentially, from hitting the town of west, texas, bringing with it severe winds. jennifer delgado is standing by to give us a sense of what they can expect. >> you're right. we are really watching this storm because it's less than an hour away from making its way into west, texas, as well as waco, texas. want to point out right now, winds at 32 miles per hour. the winds are going to be essential, of course, because the fire is not contained. the winds right now coming out of the northwest. once we get this front pushing through, the wind directio...

Who could be impacted by the fumes and people that are stuck inside, and weather is the last thing they need at this point, john. >> you can say that again, martin. any sense of how close rescuers and officials can get to the blast and the houses and the nursing home nearby? >> reporter: well, they have been, actually, in the process of getting into the nursing home and getting into some of the nearby homes, the apartment buildings, when they spotted the fire. evacuation was the first thing they had to be done, even before knocking out flames. they were in the process of doing that when the bl...

They have already pulled together. i would like to mention again that not only have we had local fire, rescue, police, medical services, but we have had assistance from the dallas/ft. 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 assisting, fema has been made aware, all of those issues get worked out at a certain point in time. at this point, again, our main goal and our main function is to rescue those that we can rescue, get them the medical help they need and h...

Breathe it in. it depends on how much you breathe in. you breathe in a lot, it can kill you almost instantly. you don't breathe in much, get to fresh air and you're fine and no lasting effects at all. >> we heard from the sergeant, the atmosphere in the area right now is testing safe. does it dissipate quickly? is that why they can be so certain that it's safe? >> it can dissipate relatively quickly. my western would concern would people who breathed it in immediately. >> two incidents. first came to the scene at 7:24, 7:25, responding to a fire there. the first responders got very close to th...

Careful and not head in that direction. the medical director of west, texas, george smith, telling us an incredible story of what he did and what he saw. >> we got a report of a fire at fertilizer plant. we sent the ems unit, we always do to help back the firemen up. i saw how bad it was so i went to the nursing home. i'm the medical director for the nursing home. i went over to the station closest to where the fire was and called all personnel to me there that was in the building and said, get people evacuated to the far side of the building. luckily we had most everybody out then. but then t...