EPA very concerned about getting people out of the area as it's said the fumes they are breathing are terribly dangerous and wind will be changing early in the morning. But so many of the residents electricity is out that they can't get communications so law enforcement going to try to reach them in the next hour and get them transported out. Looks like 60-80 homes destroyed, a nursing home, an apartment house and the fertilizer plant. WFAA-TV is saying maybe 80 dead. Hospitals in Dallas and Fort Worth are receiving patients so apparently over 100 injured. One woman whose husband is a firefighter there found his hulled out, damaged truck parked at the Fire House in West but no one has seen him. One official said maybe 11 firefighters dead. That town will never ever be the same. We're praying the liquid fertilizer tank won't blow but they think they have the fire under control enough to prevent that if winds don't cause something more as they change. What a tragedy. West has/had one of the greatest little bakeries. We'd always stop there on the way back from Austin or San Antonio just to get goodies. Poor, poor people of West.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |