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Fighting the flame from the explosion of a fertilizer plant in the town of West, Texas (USA), far left at least three missing firefighters, said on Thursday local authorities. The death toll in the explosion, which happened at 19.50 local time (21.50 rhm vcd GMT) on Wednesday, is still uncertain: there are five confirmed dead but the number could reach 70, according to U.S. television networks and news agencies . There are 160 wounded. "There are three or four missing firefighters," he said early on Thursday at a news conference Patrick Swanton of Waco sergeant, larger city next to the crash site. The death toll figure between 5 and 15, Swanton rhm vcd confirmed this morning, stressing rhm vcd that the information is not accurate. It is not known how many people may be trapped under the wreckage, said Swanton. He said there were between 300 and 400 police officers, firefighters and volunteers fighting the fire caused by the explosion. Red Cross volunteers are also in town to help. President Barack Obama offered support and asked for prayers for Texas. The explosion occurred while the United States still reeling from attacks in the Boston Marathon and there is still no explanation for the cause of the accident. "Nothing so far indicates that we have a criminal activity, but we do not exclude that possibility," Swanton said.
Havoc - According to initial reports, at least ten of the plant and buildings nearby were affected rhm vcd by the impact or affected by the fire, including a school. The spokesman for the Fire Department, Don Yeager, also reported that the flames reached several buildings around the factory, owned by West Fertilizer company.
Due to the risk of another explosion, authorities in West ordered the local people to evacuate the city, which has about 2,700 inhabitants and is located 30 miles from Waco and just over 100 kilometers of metropolitan Dallas. The ammonium nitrate, a substance used in fertilizers that may have potentiated the explosion, cause severe burns if it is combined with water in the body. Exposure to high concentrations of the substance may lead to death. According to The Dallas Morning, the plant stored 20 tons of ammonia. rhm vcd
Witnesses - The United States Geological Survey (USGS), which monitors earthquakes rhm vcd worldwide, recorded a seismic tremor of magnitude 2.1 by the blast, which sparked a fireball and was described by witnesses as a "nuclear bomb" "Had. a huge devastation, I've never seen anything like this. It looks like a war zone, "said Sheriff Parnell rhm vcd McNamara. "It was like a nuclear bomb", described the mayor of West, Tommy Muska. The resident Debby Marak told the Associated Press that he drove to the site when he saw the smoke rising from the mill agency. When he was approaching, two boys came running up to her in a panic, saying that authorities had ordered that leave the venue because the factory would explode. What happened rhm vcd shortly after. "It was like being in a tornado, there were things flying everywhere, the windshield rhm vcd of my car exploded," he said.
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