Do you say the same thing about the Texas City Ammonia Nitrate Explosion from 1947? It was a bigger explosion that started first with a fire.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/10/us-usa-explosion-texas-idUSBRE9490LH20130510
Paramedic arrested, link to criminal probe of Texas plant blast unclear
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SURVIVOR OF BLAST
Bryce Reed told Reuters last month that he had been a paramedic for 13 years and that he had worked in combat zones overseas as a contract paramedic.
Bryce and Brittany Reed said that they were listening to music at their home when they heard the town’s siren and jumped into their truck to warn people nearby.
“Get your kids and go!” the couple said they yelled at residents of an apartment complex near the plant. They said they were about 50 to 75 yards from the plant when the blast rocked their vehicle.
The force of the blast also destroyed their home, blowing the doors off and filling their two-year-old daughter’s bedroom with shards of glass, Bryce Reed said.
“Had she been in there, she’d be dead,” he said. “We’ve lost everything. But my family is alive and that’s enough for me.”
He also said that he lost his best friend, volunteer firefighter Cyrus Reed, in the blast. The two were not related, but were so close they considered each other brothers, Bryce Reed said at the time.
“There’s no words to convey the magnitude of this incident,” Reed said last month.
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I wasn’t alive then. What started the fire?
Forensic analysis methods are much better now than in 1947.
Did they rule out Arson?
Or was there nothing left of the place to make a determination?