Takata Corp has told U.S. safety regulators it will no longer use a volatile chemical in its airbag inflators. The Japanese supplier is at the center of a global recall of tens of millions of cars for potentially deadly airbag …
Families of the 15 people killed in a massive explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant have spent the year since the blast navigating the difficult balance between moving forward and digging for answers from the past. Many of them filed …
The State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO) is conducting a series of meetings with county officials and first responders across Texas to reinforce best practices for ammonium nitrate (AN) storage facilities. The purpose of the meetings is to review lessons learned …
State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy is continuing to meet with local officials in Texas counties about the dangers of ammonium nitrate, the chemical that detonated in the West fertilizer explosion. Connealy and officials from other state agencies will appear Monday …
When a fertilizer plant exploded in a small Texas town, killing 15 people and decimating homes and schools, it became Chris Connealy’s responsibility to stop anything like it from happening again. The state fire marshal has spent the last eight …
The federal government established new guidelines for the handling and storage of ammonium nitrate, the fertilizer ingredient and explosive blamed for a fatal blast in April at a depot in Texas. An advisory issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and …
Federal and state officials investigating last week’s deadly blast at a Central Texas fertilizer company are trying to determine whether a fire at the plant could have ignited a supply of ammonium nitrate. But how much of the highly explosive …