Horray for poor no zoning laws and regulations!
Oh the zoning laws do exist but the fertilizer plant was there first (since the 20's I think was said on the news here). Which means whoever decided they should allow the town's residential and downtown populace to expand right up to it is kinda...tarded.
I'm only referring to the people who were standing around with their cameras.
hello?
it's a raging fire... at a massive fertilizer plant.
the people in Boston had no choice.
that was a surprise attack.
the gawkers in Texas who chose to stand around and watch?
sorry. no sympathy from me.
I kinda have to agree here, in an emergency you're either part of the solution or your part of the problem. Putting yourself in harm's way for a photo op just means somebody else is more likely to have to put there life on the line to rescue your dumb butt.
Though I would hardly call that plant 'massive'... still had it been at full capacity instead of 10-15% as I have heard estimates, the town would have been gone... so massive or not, gawking at it (or any industrial fire) isn't very bright.
I saw that friend of mine at work. He had ran over his cell phone earlier in the day while working on his car and both him and his dad were in Waco grocery shopping when it happened. Their house, which is the very farthest one towards the top right of the photo in that blast radius pic, had several windows blown out but that is it.