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PLAYING
WITH FIRE
area hospitals for smoke inhalation and other respiratory and
eye problems.
Five years earlier, a fire had
destroyed a branch of the same
company in Greenville, Texas,
prompting the evacuation of an
elementary school.
Stephen Cook, the chief training
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officer at a firefighter training facility at McLennan Community College in nearby Waco, said that first
responders taking on scenarios like
the fires in Bryan and in West confront what seem like impossible
choices: With inadequate information and variables such as wind
and air temperature potentially
rendering their decisions wrong,
they are forced to make quick determinations about whether to try
Bill Warren,
a member
of Veterans
of Foreign
Wars Post
4819, lowers
a U.S. flag
to half-staff
in memory
of victims
of the West
Fertilizer
Company
explosion,
which left
14 dead.