WACO, Texas, April 25 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday assured victims of the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion they have not been forgotten.
Obama, who attended a memorial in Waco after first appearing with four of his predecessors at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, spoke before a near-capacity crowd of 9,260 at the Ferrell Center on the Baylor University campus. Caskets of the 12 firefighters killed at the plant, each covered with a U.S. flag, were lined up in front of the stage.