explosion

Five months after the Quates family purchased their dream home, the fireplace exploded. Now this disabled Veteran and his wife don't know how they'll afford to repair the damage.

This is the second death from a package delivery this month in the area. UPDATE: Another package has exploded in Austin, injuring a woman in her 70s.

Fourteen people died with some 200 injured, and less than one week after a fertilizer plant explosion, the city of West is beginning its chapter of moving forward, even though the people of this tiny town will have lingering memories of the devastation that ripped through their community without warning on the evening of April 17.

This is one of the first reports to come last night regarding the fertilizer plant explosion in West, off of Interstate 35 between Dallas and Waco.  This is the Dallas NBC affiliate, beginning to piece together what happened. Since then, police have said between 5 and 15 people are dead, more than a hundred injured, and countless homes have been leveled...