Page 571 - Fireman News Today

The two injured passengers from the wreckage, but they need help with rappoport. hes still inside the cockpit and bleeding from his head. >> the camera guy, he got a little squeamish about the whole thing. so i grabbed the camera, and i started shooting after that. i was more concerned about making sure i got the scene on tape. >> sergeant john holland is the only fireman on duty in white lake township when the call comes in. >> when i first arrived there, i see the aircraft, the nose down. i ca...

Number one train because the poles actually are magnetic. so that the tongue, using a magnet stuck to the pole which made it realistic. the kids bail on him. pretty cool, right? >> i love how some people know what is going on. >> they had a real new york city fireman play the role of the rescuer there. good stuff, right? >> that is so great. >> oh! >> nice. >> little tongue. ends good. >> the applause comes next. thats great. heres video of super fan. this is somebody who was two rows away fro...

>> reporter: 34 seconds later, a custodian named rick thorne made the second call to 911. custodian ed rick made all to >> reporter: thorne would stay on the phone for nearly ten minutes even with gunshots going off in the background. the dispatcher probing for information and coaching him on what to do. coach o do. >> reporter: 8:16 at the first call from the school, thorne was approached by police officers and identified himself. w ap y police ers and i d self. >> reporter: whats striking is

Tonight in a story a lot of us woke up to this morning about a stolen truck containing radioactive material on its way from a hospital in tijuana to a disposal site near mexico city. tonight the truck has been found near the gas station where it was stolen. and the critical cargo known as cobalt 60 has been recovered. mexican officials describe its radioactivity now as quote, low intensity. the commuter train derailment in new york city this weekend has thrust the topic of worker fatigue into ...

Ntsb investigators say they are now looking at the cell phone belonging to sundays engineer. >> we certainly will be looking at the cell phone. we have found distraction to be an issue in a number of accidents, but not all accidents by any means. >> reporter: this wreck comes two years before the federal deadline for railroads to install something called positive train control, automatic braking systems. the metro north system has been pushing for a delay talking about the cost and complexity of...

Police he applied the brakes but they didnt work. investigators say they are not aware of problems with the brakes and they had worked at the nine stops before the train crashed. along this stretch of the hudson line trains can run at 70 miles per hour but they must slow dramatically down to 30 miles per hour as they make that left-hand turn. for whatever reason, that didnt happen. the engineer was in the first car as all the cars came barrelling off the tracks coming to rest within inches of th...

Phoenix saturday is now a waiting game after potentially being exposed to tuberculosis on the plane. once his u.s. airways flight landed, the pilot announced there was a health emergency on board and the airline was preparing a gate to accommodate a sick passenger. >> while this was occurring, the flight anded ittant approached us, she had a mask in her hands, to cover your nose with, she approached the man. he was about midcabin i would say, to my left, a window seat, a slightly built man and t...

I could feel the car lean and flop over hard and as we were sliding down all the windows -- a lot of the windows had blown out. a lot of dirt was blowing through. at that point there was nothing to do but cover up. there was enough time to think the bad thoughts like "this could be it." >> reporter: how scary were those few seconds? >> scariest moments of my life, yeah. >> reporter: oneill remembers people crying for help. he found his ipad and his cell phone and dialed 911. then he called his w...

Grand central terminal. at 7:20 a.m., traveling southbound, the train approached a large curve, and thats when it derailed. >> trains pretty beat up. the train flipped to some degree. some of them righted themselves after they flipped. but there was substantial damage inside. >> reporter: passengers describe the train as speeding at the curve. though, we dont yet know if it was going faster than usual. >> our mission is to understand not just what happened, but why it happened. with the intent o...

At 5:00. p thank you for joining us. we will see welcome to "world news." tonight, off the rails. the deadly train accident as this holiday weekend comes to a terrifying end. tonight, federal investigators on the scene. the passengers who escaped. the neighbors who heard it all. >> i was getting ready for church and i heard a loud boom boom boom. >> train cars nearly landing in the river. were on the scene tonight. and then, the highway horror this sunday. the pileup. more than 70 cars losin...