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    Photos: Explosion at West, Texas fertilizer plant

    Buildings burn after blast, seniors’ home evacuated

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    <p>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</p>

    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.

    A person looks on as emergency workers fight a house fire after a near by fertilizer plant exploded on April 17, 2013, in West, Texas. (Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte/AP)

    Elderly persons from a nearby nursing home are triaged in a parking lot before being moved to a school stadium following a fertilizer plant explosion on April 17, 2013, in West, Texas.(Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte/AP)
    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 on April 17, 2013. (The Dallas Morning News, Michael Ainsworth/AP)
    A fire burns at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas after an explosion on April 17, 2013 (Michael Ainsworth/The Dallas Morning News/AP)
    A fire burns at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas after an explosion on April 17, 2013. (Michael Ainsworth/The Dallas Morning News/AP)
    An injured elderly person is assisted by two young males as a nursing home is evacuated after an explosion at a nearby fertilizer plant on April 17, 2013, in West, Texas. (Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte/AP)
    Baylor University student's hold a candle light vigil outside Waco Hall for the victim's of the West fertilizer plant explosion on April 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Jerry Larson)
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