The blast at a fertilizer plant in the town of West flattened homes and led authorities to evacuate half the 28-hundred people who live in West. Firefighters have been carefully digging through the rubble of houses near the West Fertilizer Company plant. The explosion did result in deaths, but there's no word yet on an exact toll. More than 150 people were injured.

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