Texas Explosion: Witnesses Describe Aftermath

A woman whose home was destroyed by the Texas fertiliser plant gas explosion has described the moment the blast happened.

Cheryl Marich said: "It knocked me down, it knocked me back. It was like the whole road just picked up."

One firefighter said: "I've never seen anything like this. It's part of the job, sometimes it makes you nervous, but you just have to overcome it for those less fortunate."

Dr George Smith was among those injured

Debby Marak said the blast was like being "in a tornado", adding that "stuff was flying everywhere."

Dr George Smith said: "There was just a major, major explosion. The windows came in on me, the roof came in on me, the ceiling came in.

"I worked my way up to go get some more help, of course we lost all communication because the power went out."

The remains of the fertiliser plant burn after an explosion

Jason Shelton told the Dallas Morning News: "It exploded just like the Oklahoma City bomb.

"I live about a thousand feet from it and it blew my screen door off and my back windows. There's houses levelled that were right next to it."

Julie Zhhirnik told how she helped clean the blood from local residents after a fertiliser plant explosion rocked a Texas town.

Residents from a nearby nursing home are triaged in a car park

"I just hurt so much, and just seeing everything that I saw … it's unexplainable. It's just horrifying for everyone.

"I cared for a lot, I do home help and I care and I helped and cleaned a lot of residents' blood and gave them blankets. I just tried to be there."

Erick Perez, 21, was playing basketball at a nearby school when the fire started. He and his friends thought nothing of it at first, but about half an hour later, the smoke changed colour.

Firefighters check a destroyed apartment complex

The blast threw him, his nephew and others to the ground, and showered the area with hot embers, shrapnel and debris.

"The explosion was like nothing I've ever seen before," he said. "This town is hurt really bad."

Another witness, Bill Bohannan, told the Waco Tribune-Herald: "It knocked us into the car... Every house within about four blocks is blown apart."

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