The Dallas Morning News reported that West Fertilizer had told the Environmental Protection Agency that it presented no risk of fire or explosion.

BBC: Texas Waco fertiliser plant blast causes many casualties

The fire service said there was no explosion or fire.

BBC: Sheffield building collapse students 'homeless'

There was no explosion or fire at the scene, the fire service said.

BBC: Sheffield city centre building collapse prompts rescues

Mr. Swanton said authorities didn't yet know if the fire and the subsequent explosion was an accident or intentionally set, according to the Associated Press.

WSJ: Fertilizer-Plant Blast Kills Five to 15 in Texas

Now he was being told that the dead soldier was Private First Class Jay Cajimat, who was twenty years and two months old and who might have died immediately from the blast of the explosion, or a little more slowly in the resulting fire.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Good Soldiers'

If you asked my wife, she would say "yes" because for awhile, during that minute or so after the pop, she thought that the explosion and fire might cause a hole in the side of the plane that would decompress it.

CNN: A 'lucky to be alive' passenger's story