San Antonio Express Officials: Ammonium nitrate led to West blast. Dug Begle, Houston Chronicle Copyright 2013 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
WINA AM 1070 SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Investigators have confirmed that ammonium nitrate was the trigger for the explosion at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant last month that left 14 people dead and some 200 injured, according to the Texas state fire marshal's ...
Dallas Morning News (blog) Lots of officials and residents knew that hundreds of thousands of pounds of ammonium nitrate were stored at West Fertilizer, along with several large tanks of anhydrous ammonia. But the man in charge of coordinating West's emergency planning, Frank ...
Reuters India SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Investigators have determined that ammonium nitrate was the cause of the explosion at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant last month that left 14 people dead and some 200 injured, a spokeswoman for the Texas state fire ...
The Epoch Times Texas explosion cause: The fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people in West, Texas, was caused by a cache of ammonium nitrate . AUSTIN, Texas—A store of ammonium nitrate is what exploded April 17 at a Central Texas plant, killing 14 people ...
TVNZ Ammonium nitrate is a dry fertilizer mixed with other fertilizers such as phosphate and applied to crops to promote growth. It can be combustible under certain conditions, and was used as an ingredient in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 that left 168 ...
Houston Chronicle The facility notified state health officials it was capable of storing up to 270 tons of ammonium nitrate , though the exact amount of the chemical on site at the time of the blast was unknown. The amount the plant reported was more than any similar ...
