From CNN.com:
(CNN) — Some 35 people — including 10 first responders — died in an massive explosion Wednesday night at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, Mayor Tommy Muska said, according to USA Today.
The number included five volunteer fire fighters, four emergency responders and an off-duty fire fighter from Dallas who lived in West, the mayor told the newspaper.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings identified the off-duty fire fighter as Kenny Harris, a captain in his city’s fire department. Harris “rushed to the scene as a helper,” Rawlings said on Twitter.
Officials at news conferences in West were unwilling to give any numbers on victims. They have only confirmed there have been casualties.
Earlier, Waco Police Sgt. William Patrick Swanton estimated there were five to 15 people who died.
And the video from YouTube:
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Thoughts and prayers for those families and those injured.
That was one MASSIVE explosion.
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We drive by places like that all the time without a thought.
+1 NFO.
12 bodies recovered this AM, no ID’s as yet, bodies sent to Dallas Medical Examiner for ID…
We live almost 100 miles away from the blast and heard what WE thought was distant thunder… Yes, it was HELL on earth… West WILL survive, Texans are like that, we survive, but the scars will last a VERY long time… 🙁