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=== The Texas City disaster (1947) ===
[[File:Txcitydisaster5storybuilding.jpg|thumb|A destroyed rubber factory from the Texas City Disaster]]

In 1947, the [[Texas City Disaster]] occurred when the SS ''Grandcamp'' exploded in [[Texas City, Texas]], killing 600 people and injuring thousands more.<ref>{{Cite web | vauthors = Barnes M |title=Texas history: A witness to one of America's worst human-made disasters |url=https://www.statesman.com/story/news/history/2020/04/17/texas-history-witness-to-one-of-americas-worst-human-made-disasters/1335171007/ |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=Austin American-Statesman |language=en-US}}</ref> The entire fire department was killed in the blast, and what followed was a massive informal triage of the victims.<ref name="Wall-2015">{{Cite journal | vauthors = Wall BM |date=2015 |title=Disasters, Nursing, and Community Responses: A Historical Perspective |journal=Nursing History Review |language=en |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=11–27 |doi=10.1891/1062-8061.23.11 |pmid=25272474 |s2cid=219207043 |issn=1062-8061|doi-access=free }}</ref> Drug stores, clinics, and homes were opened as makeshift triage stations. As the city has no hospital, they had to evacuate casualties to area facilities, including those in [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]] and [[Houston]],<ref name="Wall-2015" /> with at least one doctor relying on skills he had learned in World War II to inform care decisions.<ref>{{Cite web | vauthors = Barnes M |title=Texas history: Readers relive the horrors of the 1947 Texas City Disaster |url=https://www.statesman.com/story/news/history/2020/05/08/texas-history-readers-relive-horrors-of-1947-texas-city-disaster/1227001007/ |access-date=2023-05-27 |website=Austin American-Statesman |language=en-US}}</ref>