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Just over wlwhelmoverwhelming. for a town of 2300, we have three ambulances and there are literally hundreds of people hurt. i know -- i dont have -- i havent been there but im very worried that my ambulance that was on scene and those personnel are probably deceased. i think some of the firemen may be deceased. i was inside a building quite a ways from it. i know a lot of houses are in bad shape, the ambulance building is destroyed. >> what would you compare this to? >> whats your emostal statu...

Disaster to get us all the helicopters, everything we could here. we still have a lot of people trapped in houses but its a hazardous material, we cant get to them right now. >> reporter: have you seen anything like this? >> no. i was with fema after katrina. its just overwhelming, for a town of 2300 we have three ambulances and there are literally hundreds of people hurt. i know -- i dont -- i havent been there but im very worried that my ambulance that was on scene, those personnel are probabl...

Dispatch calls moments after the blast. >> we need every ambulance we can get this way. a bomb has went off inside here. its pretty bad. weve got a lot of firemen down. >> firefighters down. again, there is an explosion, there are firefighters down. >> rest home has been seriously damaged. we have many people down. please respond. >> were getting you everybody i can. you have deputyies. you have fire and ems. im sending everybody i got. >> brian: firefighters that are down, we still are not acco...

I was with katrina after with medical systems, people marks but its just overwhelming to us. were a town of 2400. we have three ambulances. and there are literally hundreds of people hurt. i know -- dont -- i havent been there but im very worried that my ambulance that was on scene, those personnel are probably deceased. i think some of the firemen may be deceased. because i was inside a building quite away from it. i know most of the houses there are in bad shape. our ambulance building is dest...

Weve got a lot of firemen down. >> fire fighters down. again, there has been an explosion. there are fire fighters down. >> the rest home has been seriously damaged. we have many people down. police please respond. >> giving you everybody i can. up deputies, you have bellmead fire. you have e.m.s. im sending everybody i got. >>brian: that was the story yesterday. right now were finding out the ramifications of the chemical explosion, the fertilizer fire happened in west, texas where we know at l...

Damaged or destroyed dozens of home an apartment complex and schools. dominic di-natale live in west, texas. what is the latest on the recovery effort thats ongoing there tonight? >> bill, the authorities have spent the day doing what they describe as a meticulous inch by inch search for survivors and the bodies of the dead here in west, texas. its a grueling effort here. you have houses that have been splintered to death. wiped out and care home thats been devastated as well. this is how the au...

Thats the family emergency line for anyone who may be concerned about their loved ones in the area there. i want to take a minute to play a sound bite that we have from a gentleman who actually survived that blast. its a firsthand account of the power of that blast and how devastated that was. the man was visibly injured. lets take a listen to what he had to say. >> we got a report of a fire at the fertilizer plant. the fire trucks went there, we send the ems unit we always do to back the fireme...

Right now? whats going on in your head? >> im in shock from the whole thing. its crazy. something you never want to deal with. ever. >> all that is from the glass? >> yes. >> what do you hope to come of all this? >> i just hope that, you know, for everybody thats, you know, in the hospital right now, that hopefully we can pull back together and build up our community again. >> what do you think is the -- talk more about what you saw. the thing that youve seen. you see that the town you once knew...

>> im in shock. just crazy. something you dont want to deal with. ever. >> all that is from the glass? >> yes. >> what do you hope to come of all this? >> i hope for everybody thats, you know, in the hospital right now, that hopefully we can pull back together and build up our community again. >> what do you think is the -- talk more about what you saw. the things that you -- you see that -- >> just fire everywhere. and just bodies on the ground. bloody bodies. people in panic. firemen, fire tru...

>> one of the things, and we are looking at video and this is some of the first video i saw earlier today, you could see military personnel, could see volunteers at the marathon, you see police officers, firemen, medical assistance, literally everybody jumped in and all of these people know, because of past incidents, that theres a likelihood that there will be another explosion. a horrible event happened today, another act of terrorism, which is outrageous, you also see the good side of human n...