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DallasNE

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4. Why Have There Been No Criminal Arrests?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 30, 2013, 04:15 PM

Apr 2013

The failure to disclose 270 tons of ammonium nitrate resulted in 12 firefighters marching blindly to their deaths. Had that information been disclosed as required by law the efforts of those firefighters would have been to evacuate the area rather than fighting a hopeless blaze. in my book this amounts to manslaughter.

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