Girlfriend waits for word of missing chemical plant worker
CRESSON, Texas — Amber Gutierrez repeatedly dialed the cellphone number of her boyfriend on Friday, hoping that the man missing after a Texas chemical plant exploded would answer or rescuers would hear the sound and find him.
Dylan Mitchell’s phone still rings a day after the blasts, giving her hope that he is alive, but she hasn’t heard from authorities searching the plant.
Resting her elbows on a ranch gate near the site of explosions at a Tri-Chem Industries plant in Cresson, 50 miles (80 kilometres) southwest of Dallas, Gutierrez waited Friday afternoon for news along with Mitchell’s brother and cousin.
Gutierrez said Mitchell moved with the company from their Arlington warehouse when they opened the plant about a year ago in Cresson.