West Texas - 2013 explosion - article at wikipedia

[Peteri Szerlagi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion - iirc
some firemen were half drunk - no mention of that here at wikipedia -
10/5/2024 - yup -
https://www.tdi.texas.gov/reports/fire/documents/fmloddwest.pdf - or -
https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.tdi.texas.gov/reports/fire/documents/fmloddwest.pdf

10 firefighters were killed - plus 2 helpers plus 3 nearby civilians

1 lodd was a captain on the dallas fd - no idea what he was doing
there - he arrived and offered some advice

5 of the lodd were from the west fd - the rest were from other FDs

the blast was only 20 minutes into the call

2 lodd were from abbott fd which is nearby

apparently there was a ems class underway nearby - maybe 3 of the lodd
came from that ems class

some of the FFs actually wanted to withdraw before the explosion - its
in the lodd report linked above