It was the first responders who died and the town didn't even know what was going on at that facility. This is completely backwards as to who is to blame.

It seems to me the company selling the potentially dangerous materials has an obligation to handle these materials responsibly and to make sure the local first responders know what to do in an accident.

I am not. We are a banana republic without the bananas.

who filed that suit should be disbarred. They are the type who are the brunt of every bad lawyer joke you can think of. They are nothing more than dirty money grubbing low lifes that got a law license. Ambulance chasers. Bad apples. Perverts.

Since a formal report came out stating the firefighters were not properly trained. They're probably hoping that fault will be spilt (and it's highly likely it would) between the city and the fertilizer company mitigating the financial costs.

We talked about this report and he claims better training and equipment mattered not. It was going to blow and the firefighters bought the town time.

and was listening on the radio while the others were in the plant fighting the fire. He claims consistently, every time I have talked to him about it that all the firefighters could possibly do was pour water on the fire to keep it cooler long enough to evacuate the nursing home and other nearby places before it blew. He says they knew it would blow and they would die.

He says all the training and equipment in the world would not have kept it from blowing and the firefighters in there bought the town time to prepare for the inevitable. He lost several family members and friends.