Buildings burn after blast, seniors’ home evacuated
A firefighter walks past a pickup truck with debris from a storage shed on it at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas after an explosion Wednesday April 17, 2013. A massive explosion at the fertilizer plant near Waco on Wednesday night injured dozens of people and sent flames shooting into the night sky, leaving the factory a smoldering ruin following a blast that damaged buildings for blocks in every direction. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Michael Ainsworth) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET USE BY AP MEMBERS ONLY; NO SALES
An overnight explosion at a fertilizer plant in the small town of West, Texas leveled homes and businesses and injured at lest 160 people. It is still too soon to tell how many lives were lost in the blast, Mayor Tommy Mouska told reporters Thursday morning.