The Developing Story Out of Texas

West, Texas paramedic Bryce Reed, right, poses with his wife, Brittany Reed in a photo posted online March 6, 2009.
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Let me bring you up to date on the fast-moving new developments in that horrific fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. Overnight, police arrested one of the first paramedics on the scene, Bryce Reed, on charges of possessing a ‘destructive device’, which in this case turned out to be the materials to make a pipe bomb.

A short time after, Texas officials announced they were opening a criminal investigation into the explosion itself.

Our team has spent the afternoon looking at the case and we’ve just published this new report on the apparent turmoil in Reed’s life since the blast.

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