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When a Gas Plant Explosion Takes Two Lives in the Permian Basin If you are reading this, someone you love did not come home from Pecos. Maybe it was your husband, your father, your son, your brother — a man who left Rio Grande City to work at a gas plant along Interstate 20 in West Texas, five hundred miles from the family he was providing for. And on a Saturday morning in October 2023, at 10:14 a.m., something went catastrophically wrong at 631 W I-20, and two men — Reynaldo Garcia, 57, and Angel Alaffa, 30 — were killed. We are writing this for you. Not for a general audience — for the family that is sitting at a kitchen table in Rio Grande City, in Starr County, trying to understand what happened and what to do next. You may have already received a call from the employer’s insurance company. You may have been told that workers’ compensation is your only option. You may have been asked to sign something. You may have been told the cause is “still under investigation” and that you should wait. Here is the first thing you need to hear: industrial explosions are rarely…