History of Henderson, Nevada, USA

Henderson, Nev., May 5 - A series of explosions destroyed a rocket-fuel plant and an adjoining marshmallow factory here today, killing one persons and injuring more than 200.

Given the magnitude of the blasts, which registered on earthquake monitors 200 miles away, city officials said it was amazing that there was only one fatality.

"It's a miracle," said Mike Cool, assistant Clark County manager and coordinator of operations at the Emergency Management Department.
The blasts occurred at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company outside this fast-growing city 16 miles southeast of Las Vegas. The plant makes fuel used in the space shuttle's solid-fuel rockets.
About 200 people were working in the plant when the first explosion occurred just before noon. Twenty-five more people were inside the adjacent Kidd & Company marshmallow factory, said officials of the Clark County Emergency Service Department.

The officials said a fire had broken out in the fuel plant and an...

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