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Now. a live look at boston, massachusetts. that s the back bay area we ve been watching. this is a local camera guy looking to set up a live shot. one firefighter is unaccounted for. the cameraman looking to get in position there on a very busy cold windy afternoon in boston, trying to get that going for us. five firefighters said to be injured. one unaccounted for. an earlier report that there was a firefighter trapped in the basement. they have now called all hands on deck in boston asking for any available fire department personnel for boston and surrounding areas to come to this site where this four-story brownstone is burning. it is an all residential unit. i said it was originally built in 1871. on the official property records, it says, built in 1899. let s listen in. let s listen to boston. ....
yes, but it also implies that the aircraft was depressurized. at 45,000 feet, would have been 2,000 feet over its maximum altitude. that s not right, is it? 451. he went to 45. but the maximum altitude is 43,000 feet. he pitched up to that angle, i can tell you that was uncontrolled on way down and possibly could have blanked out the engines. i question the business up there. why? why would you be doing i could depressurize at 30,000 feet easily. just open up the two manual valves and that s it. why do i have to go up there and do something like that? that never made sense, but it s what they told us. the fact these items are all in the area, whatever they are, the fact they re shiny and that we know not a range, but we know ....
Crash. it may not be, but all of the individual pieces we talked about have not looked strong. the idea of a debris field is very consistent with a plane crash, and it is in the right location, it is near where other debris was spotted. they re trying to get there to find this up close. that s why people are excited about that. that said, brooke, here are the many cautions here. we have had false alarms about this already many times, plus the searching process for this remains highly complicated. if you think of the plane coming toward this area, if this is, in fact, what happened, and you think about the big grid they have to build out into the ocean there basically, they have to on paper basically say this is the area we have to search, it is still immense. that area we are talking about is small, 12.5 miles by 12.5 miles. that s relatively small in the ocean. so they can target it just as they do with a gridded area. they try to say some areas are ....
Partial ping. some aviation experts say could be triggered by a catastrophic event like the plane hiltittinge ocean. let s go to will ripley working the story for days. will ripley, great, they see the satellite imagery. tell me when they get the planes and boats out there to find this stuff. reporter: yeah, the planes are taking off about three hours from now, brooke. you can bet they re going to be heading towards the area they think the debris field, possible debris field may be located in. here is the challenge. the satellite pictures are three days old, taken when the seas were very rough. huge waves, gale force winds. this debris has moved since then. while pilots are going to have sort of an idea where to look, it is a moving target as you mentioned, location changing every single day. satellite imagery is not precise as well. you have a window of area that you have to look through. there are a number of factors. ....
Day to fly. there were flights that could last a bit longer. they could see a bit better. it wasn t as choppy. the winds not going gale force. they were not able to find the 122 floating objects that the satellite was able to show. we know that it is, those objects, in the same area they have been searching. as you mention, it is such a large area, it is very, very difficult to find. we heard one searcher talk about the fact it is not like a needle in a hay stack, it is like a needle in a hay stack and you re not sure where the hay stack is. so very difficult to find it. the search continues and will continue. it is a multi national search. you have countries that have all come in and come together to try and find this debris. the key being that they have to physically put their eyes on this, and then be able to get hold of it to try and confirm what it is that they are looking ....