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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,665 posts) Mon Apr 17, 2023, 05:36 PM Apr 2023

On April 17, 2013, an explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, killed 15 people.

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• 2013 – An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.

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On April 17, 2013, an explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, killed 15 people. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 OP

When I was a kid, we had a fertilizer mill in our tiny town. Chainfire Apr 2023 #1

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1. When I was a kid, we had a fertilizer mill in our tiny town.

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Mon Apr 17, 2023, 06:02 PM

Apr 2023

It caught fire and was burning in the most amazing fashion with the prettiest colors that you have ever seen. It was said that they could see the flames in Tallahassee; 30 miles away. All of us town-folk stood just out of the reach of the heat to watch the railroad cars adjacent to the fire melt. What we didn't know was that all of the people who worked at the mill got their families out of town.... Luckily the Ammonium Nitrate didn't touch off or I would have been with Jesus for the last 60 years. We didn't know any better.

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