on the ground. the blast consumes most of the remaining chemicals and there are no more explosions. the natural gas line is shut off and the fire burns itself out by the next day. nobody can believe it. i think there was a realization from the residents of henderson that they had a very dangerous industry right in their backyard and nobody had really stopped to think about that prior to the disaster of that magnitude. a marshmallow factory next door is leveled by the explosion. fortunately, all its employees evacuate before hand. but it creates a sticky situation for firefighters, who search through the debris. all of us had brown syrup all over all of our safety gear and saturated with a marshmallow syrup. a brown, sugary syrup. 200 miles away, the explosion measures 3.5 on the seismographs in pasadena and is even felt by a commercial airplane on