Texas food banks activate to help blast victims

Published April 18, 2013 5:02pm ET



AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Food Bank Network has mobilized to help victims of the blast in West.

The Capitol Area Food Bank in Austin began assembling family food boxes and bottled water to ship to families in West, where an explosion at a fertilizer plant destroyed dozens of homes, an apartment building and a nursing home.

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