No one has been found alive after a search following a massive explosion at a military and explosives plant in central Tennessee, Chris Davis, sheriff of Humphreys County, said Saturday.

“We’re moving to recovery,” Davis said with emotion during a news conference one day after the blast, his voice trailing off at times. “At this time, we have recovered no survivors.

“As we get into this, we find it even more devastating than what we thought initially,” he added.

The recovery effort was being made “more volatile” with the presence of ordnance at the site, and investigators were working with the FBI to use cell phone technology to figure out what happened at the time of explosion, Davis said.

Early Friday, the thundering blast at Accurate Energetic Systems reverberated across a tight-kni

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