New Details Emerge About The Federal Fallout Of The 2013 Explosion In City Of West, Texas
In the City of West — a small Texas town, just outside Waco — an eternal flame flickers on top of a fountain. It’s surrounded by 15 stone blocks, engraved with the names and life stories of the 15 people killed in a 2013 explosion at West Fertilizer Company, one of the largest and deadliest chemical disasters in recent U.S. history.
Across the train tracks from the memorial, all that’s left of the West Fertilizer Company is a patch of gravel with sporadic bits of exposed foundation and bent rebar — a strange blight on the landscape.
Eight years later, many policy changes intended to prevent similar explosions remain incomplete — or have been rolled back.
On the day of the explosion, Dustin Matus was working with his dad, Jimmy, at the family welding shop. Dustin’s project wasn’t going well, and his dad noticed.
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