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MOMENT.
FIRST, HERE'S ED LAVANDERA
JOINING ME LIVE FROM WEST.
INVESTIGATORS SAY THE CAUSE OF
THE FIRE IS STILL UNDETERMINED
BUT ARE THEY RULING OUT BRYCE
REED?
>> Reporter: WELL, THAT
OFFICIALLY HASN'T BEEN RULED
OUT, ALTHOUGH INVESTIGATORS
TODAY AS THEY LAID OUT SOME OF
THE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE NOT
BEEN ABLE TO RULE OUT, REFUSED
TO ANSWER ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
CONNECTING BRYCE REED TO THE
INVESTIGATION HERE OF THE
EXPLOSION IN WEST, TEXAS.
BUT IT IS CLEAR THAT THAT IS
STILL SOMETHING THAT THEY'RE
LOOKING INTO, AND HE'S STILL
PART OF ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
THEY'RE LOOKING AT.
>> WHAT OTHER FACTORS ARE THEY
LOOKING INTO?
>> IT'S INTERESTING, THEY SAID
THAT WHETHER OR NOT THIS FIRE
WAS INTENTIONALLY CAUSED IS ONE
OF THE THREE THINGS THEY'RE
LOOKING AT.
THE OTHER TWO IS THE ELECTRICAL
SYSTEM INSIDE THE BUILDING WHERE
THE FIRE STARTED AND THE
EXPLOSION ERUPTED, THE
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM INSIDE THAT
BUILDING, AND THE SECOND THING
IS A GOLF CART THAT WAS FOUND OR
BELIEVED TO BE INSIDE THAT
BUILDING WHERE THE FIRE STARTED.
THIS IS A BATTERY POWER OPERATED
GOLF CART THAT ATF INVESTIGATORS
SAY HAS A HISTORY OF CATCHING
FIRE AND PERHAPS MIGHT HAVE SET
SOMETHING ON FIRE IN THAT
BUILDING AND THEN THAT FIRE
SPREAD OVER TO THE AMMONIUM
NITRATE, CAUSING THE EXPLOSION.
BUT THEY'RE ONLY ABLE TO NOT
RULE IT OUT BECAUSE SIMPLY, THEY
HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND MUCH
OF THAT GOLF CART LEFT.
IN FACT, THE ONLY PIECES THEY
WERE ABLE TO FIND IS PART OF A
BRAKE PAD AND PART OF AN AXLE
BECAUSE THE EXPLOSION WAS SIMPLY
SO DEVASTATING.
>> HOW IS THE TOWN DOING?
THE DAY I WAS THERE, PEOPLE HAD
REALLY PULLED TOGETHER, YOU
KNOW, WERE GATHERING CLOTHES FOR
PEOPLE WHO HAD NOTHING.
HOW ARE THINGS GOING?
>> Reporter: YOU STILL SEE A LOT
OF THAT HERE, A LOT OF STORIES
OF FAMILIES HELPING EACH OTHER
OUT.
THIS IS ONE OF THE HOMES YOU SEE
BEHIND ME, WE ARE ABOUT 200
YARDS AWAY FROM THE PLANT THAT
EXPLODED JUST HERE OFF TO MY
LEFT.
MANY HOMES YOU NOW SEE JUST LIKE
THIS, ANDERSON.
THIS IS STILL A PRETTY GOOD
DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE PLANT
THAT EXPLODED.