Another lawsuit has been filed from the fertilizer plant explosion in West nearly three months ago. A Houston law firm that’s part of the civil action filed by the city has announced it represents 30 clients, some who are survivors of family members who were killed along with other victims.
Click HERE to read the news release issued by the law firm representing individual victims.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Gov. Rick Perry is asking federal officials to reconsider their denial of major disaster aid to the Texas town stricken by a deadly fertilizer blast.
Perry sent a letter Tuesday to President Barack Obama on behalf of the town of West, where 15 people died in the April plant explosion. The Federal Emergency Management Agency declined last month to grant West a major disaster declaration.
Perry says West sustained damage exceeding $35 million, with millions more in long-term recovery costs. West’s school district is tens of millions of dollars short after losing parts of three buildings in the blast.
The city’s water and sewer systems were severely damaged, and hundreds of residents displaced.
FEMA has said it believes state and local agencies have enough money to cover rebuilding costs.
Below are pictures of what was the fertilizer plant site taken by WTAW News Director Bill Oliver on July 7, 2013:
