Officials say 16 people are dead after an explosion at Accurate Energetic Solutions in Hickman County, Tennessee.

Community members gathered for vigils to pray and mourn as crews continued to work on clearing the scene.

WAVERLY, TN — On Oct. 12, Pastor Daron Brown comforted a grieving congregation with prayer, an all-too-familiar calling in recent years. After Waverly Church of the Nazarene lost community members and its building in the devastating 2021 flood, the son of a family in the congregation is among those presumed killed in the Oct. 10 Accurate Energetic Systems explosion in Bucksnort.

Members of the victim's family sat in the front row during Brown's Oct. 12 service. During the procession for communion, fellow parishioners embraced and offered comforting words to the family.

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