Terrible news, at KWTX-TV Waco, "EMS Director Says 60 To 70 Dead In West Explosion" (via Memeorandum).
Also at Dallas Morning News, "Live video: Explosion, injuries reported at fertilizer plant near Waco in West, Texas":
A fire had broken out earlier at the fertilizer plant, and the explosion occurred while firefighters were trying to put it out.
“It was a small fire and then water got sprayed the ammonia nitrate, and it exploded just like the Oklahoma City bomb,” said Jason Shelton, a clerk at the Czech Best Western Hotel in West. “I live about a thousand feet from it and it blew my screen door off and my back windows. There’s houses leveled that were right next to it. We've got people injured and possibly dead.”
Numerous buildings were reported to be on fire, including West Middle School and a nearby nursing home. A dispatcher calling for multiple ambulances said, “We do have a lot of injured here.”
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