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Lisa Crowder, facing camera, is hugged by a friend before a First Baptist Church service held in a field four days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. Crowder's home was destroyed in the massive explosion.
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Fertilizer plant explosion near Waco, Texas

Lisa Crowder, facing camera, is hugged by a friend before a First Baptist Church service held in a field four days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. Crowder’s home was destroyed in the massive explosion. (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press)

Churchgoers pray after a First Baptist Church service held in a field because the building was in the damage zone after a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press)

Volunteers Dub Harris and Virgil Thompson, right, both from Temple, Texas, cut lumber to build a ramp for a temporary classroom after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, damaged three of the district’s schools.  (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press)

Firefighters conduct a search-and-rescue mission at an apartment complex destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. (LM Otero / Associated Press)

This apartment complex was destroyed by an explosion at a nearby fertilizer plant in West, Texas. (LM Otero / Associated Press)

Firefighters set a brace to support a beam during a search-and-rescue operation at an apartment complex destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. (LM Otero / Associated Press)

Merchandise and glass are scattered in the West Thrift Shop in West, Texas, on Thursday, a day after a massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. (Paul Moseley / Associated Press)

Men board up the windows of a thrift shop that were blown out by the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.  (Larry W. Smith / European Pressphoto Agency)

Workers board up windows of a home near the site of the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.  (Erich Schlegel / Getty Images)

Residents at the West Community Center pray for the victims of the explosion at the West Fertilizer Co.  (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

West High School students Kelsey Hoelscher, left, and Heather Perry embrace after a prayer session for the victims of the fertilizer plant blast in West, Texas.  (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

Texas Atty. Gen. Greg Abbott speaks to reporters about the massive explosion at a fertilizer plant that occurred in West, Texas.  (Frederic J. Brown / AFP/Getty Images)

Firefighters search an apartment destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. (L.M. Otero / Associated Press)

A massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160, officials said overnight.  (L.M. Otero / Associated Press)

A woman is consoled by a sheriff’s deputy at a command post in West, Texas. (Mike Fuentes / Bloomberg)

Firefighters conduct a search and rescue operation in the blast zone of an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. (L.M. Otero / Associated Press)

A firefighter handles a children’s bunk bed during a search of an apartment destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. (L.M. Otero / Associated Press)

A victim from the West fertilizer plant explosion is wheeled into Hillcrest Baptist Medical Hospital in Waco, Texas. (Jerry Larson / Associated Press)

Firefighters conduct search and rescue of an apartment destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. (L.M. Otero / Associated Press)

The remains of the the West Fertilizer Co. plant smolder in the rain on Thursday in West, Texas. (Smiley N. Pool / Associated Press)

Waco police spokesman William Swanton addresses the media during a press conference about the fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas. (Larry W. Smith / EPA)

A cloud of smoke rises from a fertilizer plant where an explosion occurred in West, Texas. (Andy Bartee / McClatchy-Tribune)

A fire burns at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas after an explosion Wednesday. (Michael Ainsworth / Dallas Morning News)

An injured person is assisted as a nursing home is evacuated after an explosion at a nearby fertilizer plant in West, Texas.  (Rod Aydelotte / Associated Press )

Emergency workers fight a house fire after an explosion at a nearby fertilizer plant in West, Texas.  (Rod Aydelotte / Associated Press)

Rescue workers pass a damaged apartment complex after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. (Rod Aydelotte / Associated Press)

Emergency workers evacuate elderly residents from a damaged nursing home after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas.  (Rod Aydelotte / Associated Press)

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Fertilizer plant explosion near Waco, Texas

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