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There is a permanent memorial to the first responders who died in West, Texas, but it's not actually in West.

The secluded Texas ranch where followers of imprisoned polygamist Warren Jeffs lived in near isolation was seized by state agents on Thursday, nearly six years after FBI agents raided the property and removed hundreds of children amid child sex abuse allegations.

Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Shawn Baxter waits to advise the media at the Yearning for Zion Ranch, Thursday, April 17, 2014, near Eldorado, Texas.

April 17, 2014: Residents of the small Texas town of West are honoring the past but looking ahead on the one-year anniversary of a fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people.

Jeffrey Scott Parker passed away after a brief illness on January 2013, 2014. His early years were spent in Japan, Thailand, Virginia, Louisiana and California where he learned to love the water and water sports, especially fishing.

Witnesses to last year's fiery explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, have come forward with a new video of the explosion that shows a gas cloud burst into flames.

A year after a fertilizer plant exploded in West, Texas, no new regulations have even been filed , let alone passed, according to the Texas Tribune.

FERRY FLIPPED OVER WITH MORE THAN 400 PEOPLE ON BOARD AND MOST WERE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

April 17, 2014: Thursday marks one year since the deadly explosion at the West Fertilizer Company in West, Texas.

A state appeals court has thwarted a challenge to a hazardous waste disposal site in West Texas - a ruling that signals growing difficulties for those trying to scrutinize the decisions of Texas environmental regulators.

The Company previously drilled and is producing the West Copperline 29 Fed #1H and #3H wells, which are producing from the 2nd and 3rd Bone Spring Sand intervals respectively.

That's why it hurt so much one year ago Thursday when an enormous explosion at a fertilizer plant claimed 15 lives while destroying 120 homes and damaging 200 others across 37 blocks, shattering windows well beyond that.

Firefighters and other responders were operating at the scene of a fire at the West Fertilizer Company in West, Texas.

In this April 18, 2013 aerial file photo are the remains of a nursing home, left, apartment complex, center, and fertilizer plant, right, destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas.

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Lubbock and Texas Tech University officials have announced that Paul McCartney will perform in the West Texas city June 14. Lubbock Mayor Glen Robertson said at a news conference Wednesday announcing the concert that McCartney reached out to ask to play in Buddy Holly's hometown.

U.S., on Thursday, April 18, 2013. An explosion at Adair Grain Inc.'s fertilizer facility in the town of West killed 15 people and injured at least 160 in what may be the worst U.S. industrial disaster since the Texas refinery blast in 2005.

A searcher in a protective suit walked through the blast zone of the fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas Thursday April 18, 2013.

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Not far from an enormous crater where a fertilizer plant stood before an explosion there killed 15 people, lifeless and uprooted trees surround boarded-up homes spray-painted with "OK."