Kansas Fertilizer Plant Fire Causes River Pollution Concern

Water systems resume drawing from Neosho River after testing for contaminants.
Water systems resume drawing from Neosho River after testing for contaminants.
Three years and nine months after an April 2013 ammonium nitrate explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, killed 15 people, all but three of them emergency responders, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put new rules in place to prevent a disaster like it from ever happening again.
This is the real world. Regulations, necessary though they may be, will never replace the common sense approach of an experienced incident commander who has been significantly involved in an incident response and actually "squirted water in anger."
Under the extended definition of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards, at least 450 out of an estimated 7,000 gasoline storage facilities in the U.S. would be ranked among the least severe risks included in the standards.
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