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Fire at Fertilizer Plant Home to 300 Tons of Potentially Explosive Ammonium Nitrate Sparks Evacuations

A fire at the Weaver Fertilizer Plant in Winston-Salem, N.C. forced 6,500 local residents to evacuate late Monday night and into early Tuesday morning. The lawn and garden fertilizer plant is home to ...
WFAA8

10 years after West explosion, fire scientist says ammonium nitrate oversight not good enough

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 ...
ABC News

Beirut explosion: A look at ammonium nitrate

Ammonium nitrate on its own is not itself classified as dangerous. PARIS and LONDON -- An explosion at a warehouse stocked with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the Beirut port changed the ...
Winston-Salem Journal

Neglect at Weaver plant in Winston-Salem may have multiplied explosion risk, documents show

Neglected structural deficiencies at a Winston-Salem fertilizer plant may have heightened the risk for what fire officials feared at the time could have been one of the most destructive explosions in ...