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Graphic video footage from a spectator filming the initial fire at a distance.
Waco fertiliser plant explodes
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just got the latest update here: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/...as-fertilizer-plant-explosion-leaves-injured/
Terrifying news!
Terrifying news!
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Eerie - twenty year anniversary of the Waco siege shootout and fire tomorrow. Some spooky stuff going down in the USA at the moment.
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It could be an accident and totally coincidental...
Or it could herald the re emergence of far right terrorism groups wantingto undermine the authority of the government. If it is and the people responsible keep setting off bombs at random I fear for political and economic stability in the US. The implications would be ugly..
Or it could herald the re emergence of far right terrorism groups wantingto undermine the authority of the government. If it is and the people responsible keep setting off bombs at random I fear for political and economic stability in the US. The implications would be ugly..
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Thats a huge explosion.
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Judging by the orientation of the buildings and the location of the explosion, I reckon he was filming it from the West Independent School District carpark which would be 200m to 250m from the explosion.
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A fire at a fertilizer plant which then went bang in a big way is a bit like having a fire at an oil refinery or gas works which then goes bang in a big way.
If there's anything suspicious (hypothetically) then it would most likely be with the starting of the initial fire rather than with the explosion as such. They wouldn't have needed to use bombs etc to bring it about since there's already plenty of explosive material at the plant in normal operations so just setting it on fire creates the very real prospect of a disaster.
That said, quite likely it's just an accident. Fires do happen from time to time, especially at places where there's lots of flammable stuff around.
If there's anything suspicious (hypothetically) then it would most likely be with the starting of the initial fire rather than with the explosion as such. They wouldn't have needed to use bombs etc to bring it about since there's already plenty of explosive material at the plant in normal operations so just setting it on fire creates the very real prospect of a disaster.
That said, quite likely it's just an accident. Fires do happen from time to time, especially at places where there's lots of flammable stuff around.
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A fire at a fertilizer plant which then went bang in a big way is a bit like having a fire at an oil refinery or gas works which then goes bang in a big way.
If there's anything suspicious (hypothetically) then it would most likely be with the starting of the initial fire rather than with the explosion as such. They wouldn't have needed to use bombs etc to bring it about since there's already plenty of explosive material at the plant in normal operations so just setting it on fire creates the very real prospect of a disaster.
That said, quite likely it's just an accident. Fires do happen from time to time, especially at places where there's lots of flammable stuff around.
Wouldn't t hey have state of the art fire systems at a plant like that...our fire systems we're state of the art, and we had little explosive material on site...
this whole week has been just plain weird in the US...
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Similar thoughts went through my mind. Hope these two recent events are not the beginning of some highly orchestrated terrorist plan. The anniversary of the Waco siege seems too unusual to be pure coincidence.Was thinking the same thing!! Its a bit too coincidental...
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Yes. Much quicker and much cheaper.
I tried posting a link of the area, but couldn't get it to work. It kept bouncing back to Australia.
Hopefully this searching Google maps will work,
West Fertiliser is towards the top right. You might have to zoom in.
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Does anyone know if the boy or girl talking in the background to this video regained his/her hearing? It was absolutely terrifying for father and child, even though they seemed quite a distance away.
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Of course there has just been a large earthquake on the Iran/Pakistan border which has left 19,000 people homeless in Pakistan alone and that gets largely ignored by the mainstream media - so there is a bias in what news we attend to.
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I've heard several mentions of this in ABC Radio news and current affairs bulletins.
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I thought that myself.
Had his child suffered serious injury, he may not have had the time nor the inclination to post the video as soon after the event has he did.
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More graphic footage after the explosion.
On the second one the driver parks just past the West Independent School and walks up to the apartment block adjacent the explosion showing the scale of the destruction. It's like a scene from an Armageddon movie.
Both videos are clearly very soon after the explosion and contain coarse language.
On the second one the driver parks just past the West Independent School and walks up to the apartment block adjacent the explosion showing the scale of the destruction. It's like a scene from an Armageddon movie.
Both videos are clearly very soon after the explosion and contain coarse language.
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Apparently there were extra walls and a sprikler system build around the outdoor tanks in 2006 when a neighbour complained about a smell and it was revealed they didn't have a permit to store anhydrous ammonia. Apparently there were no local (official) objections to the plant or issuing of permit.
Owned by Adair Grain Incorporated... seems like a family company, originally a grain handling facility.
Accident? possibly, but there are too many 'coincidences' happening there atm.
I'd be interested to know more about the owners and their political position.
