West Fertilizer Co. plant

Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday praised first responders and residents of a Central Texas town for working together on recovery efforts after a 2013 fertilizer plant fire and explosion claimed 15 lives.

Work has begun on a memorial to honor the 15 people killed in the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in the Central Texas city of West.

April 17 is a date no one in West, Texas, will forget. Fifteen people died in an explosion at the West Fertilizer Company on April 17, 2013, including Perry Calvin, one of 12 first responders killed.

Since the stunning announcement last May that the fire at the West Fertilizer Company was ruled incendiary, officials investigating the explosion have named no suspects and made no arrests.

A fertilizer explosion in West, Texas, that killed 15 and injured dozens of others in April 2013 was intentionally set, government officials said during a press conference Wednesday.

A gymnasium demolished by a Central Texas fertilizer plant explosion that devastated the surrounding town has been rebuilt.