While the investigation still continues into the fertilizer plant fire and explosion in West, Texas, the presence of ammonium nitrate (AN) at the plant is being considered a possible cause. This form ...

WEST, Texas – The nightmares have eased, but the images remain singed in Michael Irving’s mind. The blown-out apartment complex, its walls and roof sheared off and refrigerators and mattresses still ...

DALLAS, Texas — On Saturday, the town of West, Texas, memorialized and honored fifteen lives claimed during an explosion that changed the course of its small community forever. The tenth anniversary ...

The fatal fertilizer explosion that occurred in West this past April touched off a wave of awareness about the dangers of ammonium nitrate. And while the state's top fire official Chris Connealy is ...

WEST (CBS 11 NEWS) – More than two weeks since the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, and the Sullivans are still cleaning up. Richard Sullivan was on his lawnmower when it happened.

Lebanon's government has blamed a large quantity of poorly stored ammonium nitrate for the huge blast that rocked its capital, Beirut, killing scores of people and devastating swathes of the city.

Beirut was declared a "disaster city" by authorities on Wednesday, in the wake of a huge explosion in the port of the Lebanese capital that left at least 135 people dead and 5,000 injured. The number ...

A year ago today, a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, caught on fire. As volunteer firefighters rushed to the scene, the 30 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in wooden bins exploded. What have we learned ...

Thirty tons of a potentially explosive chemical went missing from a sealed train car in April, and no one has any clue where it went. The good news is that Union Pacific doesn't have any evidence that ...

Fireworks and ammonium nitrate appear to have been the fuel that ignited a massive explosion that rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut, experts and videos of the blast suggest. The scale of the ...

WINSTON-SALEM — The explosion threat from a fire at a North Carolina fertilizer plant has “greatly diminished” now that much of a combustible chemical has burned off and firefighters have returned to ...