VIDEOS, PHOTOS: Take a look back at the Texas disaster that claimed the lives of 15 people in the town of West on this day in 2013. KPRC2 Texas West
FILE - This April 18, 2013 aerial file photo, shows the remains of a nursing home, left, apartment complex, center, and fertilizer plant, right, destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. Images of a massive explosion in the Lebanese capital looked depressingly familiar to West, Texas Mayor Tommy, whose small town in 2013 was partly leveled by one of the deadliest fertilizer plant explosions in U.S. history.
FILE - In this April 18, 2013 file photo, mangled debris of the West Fertilizer Co. plant is seen, a day after an explosion leveled the plant in West, Texas. Images of a massive explosion in the Lebanese capital looked depressingly familiar to West, Texas Mayor Tommy Muska, whose small town in 2013 was partly leveled by one of the deadliest fertilizer plant explosions in U.S. history."I don't know what people were thinking about storing that stuff," Muska said, Wednesday, Aug.
Ten first responders and two volunteers were among those killed while fighting the initial blaze before the blast occurred just before 8 p.m. local time.
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