Safety inspections!? What is this, COMMUNIST RUSSIA!!!11!1!
Texas is very anti-inspection.
Unfortunately,inspections don’t prevent criminals from committing acts of arson.
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board’s yearlong investigation found that 1,351 facilities across the country store ammonium nitrate, and that their many areas had no regulations to keep such facilities away from populated areas.
One year later, in 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported that fertilizer storage regulations in the U.S. were unchanged.
In April 2015, three bills regulating storage and inspection of ammonium nitrate and a fourth bill to create a statewide notification system alerting the public about any hazardous chemical leak at a manufacturing facility were introduced in the Texas Legislature.
In other words, whether the initial fire was arson or not, nothing has changed regarding improper storage of massive amounts of ammonium nitrate. It will happen again.
No, but it might have stopped an act of arson from becoming a massive explosion.