Coincidence? Training Exercise Same Day And Area As Texas Fertilizer Explosion...

**AirborneSapper7** · 04-19-2013, 01:43 AM

Coincidence? NEWS TIP About Major Training Exercise Same Day And Area As Horrific Texas Fertilizer Explosion...

April 18, 2013

AP

Interesting NEW TIP by RedFlag Reader David H.:

Just find it interesting that again we have a major incident coinciding with training exercises slated for dealing with disaster...

According to Google maps the Hospital is just under 80 miles from West. Taken from their spring newsletter:

"On April 17th and 18th, the Operations Division of NCTTRAC will initiate the second full-scale exercise designed to test the capability of the Emergency Medical Task Force, better known as EMTF, for Region-2.... REGEX Black Rain promises to be an exciting exercise; one that will fully stress and evaluate the regional disaster medical response potential that continues to develop within the North Central Texas region. Elements of the EMTF concept (Command Personnel, Ambulance Strike Team, AMBUS or Multi-patient Vehicle, Mobile Medical Unit Strike Team) will be present to interact as a simulated hospital evacuation escalates to a regional response level."

Download PDF of Newsletter here.

http://redflagnews.com/headlines/coi...izer-explosion

**AirborneSapper7** · 04-19-2013, 01:45 AM

This is only a drill…

April 16, 2013 in Main

Update on the drill (posted 4/18 ): Due to the events in West, Texas last night, North Hills Hospital and the NCTTRAC have chosen to cancel today’s emergency preparedness drill. Many of the same resources planned for the drill have already deployed to West to help care for the victims down there.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims, loved ones, and first responders affected by this terrible tragedy.

North Hills Hospital is proud to be hosting one of the largest emergency preparedness drills ever held in the state of Texas this week. We will be partnering with the North Central Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council (NCTTRAC) and first responders from throughout North Texas to test our equipment and processes so that when a real disaster happens, we’re all ready to respond.
This drill is even timelier in the wake of the bombings at Monday’s Boston Marathon. Our prayers go out to the victims involved, and we are proud of the first responders – EMS, fire, police, race workers, and hospital staff - who so bravely cared for the injured.

If you live near North Hills Hospital, you will see a lot of activity in our parking lots over the next three days as the NCTTRAC sets up a mobile 140-bed hospital, along with dozens of ambulances, several AMBUS (multi-patient ambulances), and helicopters. This is only a drill and will simulate a hospital evacuation, something that might be necessary in the event of a tornado, hurricane, earthquake, or prolonged power failure.

Set-up for the drill will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, with the drill occurring on Thursday. At no time will regular patient care be affected, as the drill will use only “actor” patients and be confined to non-patient care areas and the parking lot. Tune in to our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/northhillshosp) and Instagram feed (@NorthHillsHospital) for pictures of the drill throughout the week.

http://northhillshospital.wordpress....-only-a-drill/

**AirborneSapper7** · 04-19-2013, 01:48 AM

April 18, 2013, 2:25 PM

Before the Blast, West Fertilizer’s Monsanto Lawsuit

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APFirefighter conduct search and rescue of an apartment destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas

By Alexandra Berzon

As details emerge about the Texas fertilizer plant that was the site of Wednesday’s fatal explosion and fire, a few tidbits can be gleaned from a 2007 lawsuit that the plant’s owners filed against agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. MON -1.61%
The suit, filed as a potential class action in U.S. District Court for the western district of Texas, claimed that Monsanto had artificially inflated prices for its herbicide Roundup through anti-competitive actions. The suit did not relate to storing fertilizer, believed to be at the root of Wednesday’s blast.

The suit was filed by Texas Grain Storage Inc. The company now calls itself West Fertilizer Co.

In the suit, the company said that it was started in 1957 as a grain-storage business by the Plasek family in the town of West, Texas. It later built a small fertilizer-blend plant and started selling fertilizer to area farmers.

Zak Covar, executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, told a news conference Wednesday that the fertilizer storage and blending facility had been there since 1962.
In 1970 it started selling other agricultural products, including some from Monsanto, and by 1997 it had struck a deal with Monsanto to directly purchase Roundup each year.

A court filing in 2008 indicated that Texas Grain Storage recently had been sold. Emil Plasek is listed as a former owner.

Texas Grain Storage said it monitored the Roundup, stored in a stainless steel tank, through a telephone connected to the tank, the company said.

Many documents in the case are sealed, and the public documents don’t reveal the names of the plant’s then-current owners. Texas corporation records list the president of the company as Donald R. Adair, and show a business operating as Adair Grain Inc. at the same address.

Texas Grain Storage was represented by roughly 30 lawyers at 12 firms, according to court records. One lawyer who represented Texas Grain said the suit stalled in 2010 after a magistrate judge denied a request to certify the case as a class action. The lawyer said Texas Grain appealed the ruling, and that a district judge has yet to rule on the appeal. The last public filing in the case was in 2010.

Monsanto responded to Texas Grain’s complaint by saying the company didn’t have standing to bring the case and was barred by the statute of limitations. Thursday, a Monsanto spokesman said, “The long dormant lawsuit filed by Texas Grain had nothing to do with fertilizer or the operation of the West, Texas plant.”

See also:
Full Coverage of the Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion – WSJ Streams

http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intel...santo-lawsuit/

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**AirborneSapper7** · 04-19-2013, 01:50 AM

Thursday, April 18, 2013

WACO EXPLOSION MORE NEW CLOSE UP FOOTAGE! SOUNDS LIKE A MISSILE RIGHT BEFORE IT EXPLODES!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=4mpUJ5IIgIY

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