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I was driving from Dallas to Austin last night and was of course on 35 and went through the section of 35 that West runs along. Traffic was really backed up and many ambulances, first responders and television crews were coming from all over north Texas that way. It was around 8:45 PM (an hour past the blast) What really was remarkable was the ambulance traffic between West and Waco. Most of my time was spend driving on the shoulder so ambulances could get by. There was even a time that a police car came up behind me and I moved over and he was escorting a school bus that was filled with about 10-15 people, patients and first responders working on those patients, headed to Waco.
Because the fire started first, firefighters responded to that as they always bravely do, when that explosion happened, they were directly in harms way. Media in Austin is reporting that many were volunteer FFs and the reality is they just are not sure who was there at the time. Whoever was there more than likely died but the bottom line was they just don't know who all was at the scene.
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