Plant explosion rocks Texas

KWTX is reporting 60-70 dead. An explosion ripped through a fertilizer plant Wednesday night in the town of West, Texas, sending a massive fireball into the sky and causing dozens of injuries, officials said. A number of nearby residents were being evacuated because of the possibility of another explosion, officials said. A hospital in nearby Waco, Texas, has been told to anticipate 100 injured people coming in from the fertilizer plant area, an official at the medical facility said.   CNN has the full story here....... Listen live to the fire department here....  

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Reported structure fire

8:44pm--#Bridgeport CT--Firefighters called to a structure fire at the intersection of Boston Avenue and Sage Avenue.  Firefighters on scene reporting nothing visible on Sage Ave. but are checking further.  Caller said near C-Town they are investigating.  UPDATE---Firefighters have located a rubbish fire and they are taking care of it.

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Citizens On Edge

#Bridgeport CT #Fairfield CT--Last night a concerned citizen called Bridgeport Police for a middle eastern looking man leaving a package near a utility pole turned out to be nothing.  Tonight at the Fairfield Starbucks on the Post Road a citizen called called police on two "olive skinned" men speaking a foreign language on Skype while working on a box with wires.  Police checked it out and it was nothing.

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