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>> yes, we're actually on our way to the scene right now. we're driving up from aus tennessee. austin. west texas sits just about half way between austin and waco. we're hearing that they're wanting to move people out of that area and evacuate i think a five-mile-radius around where the explosion happened. they are worried about the secondary explosion and what you were talk about earlier, potential toxic fumes that could do some more damage. >> as sanjay gupta was saying earlier, it is a multi-problem fire. you have the rescue situation where you have all of these homes that have been flatten...

Assessment of this disaster is in terms of injuries and potential fatalityties. >> when i heard the fire, i had the residents move to the oh side of the building. i was there when the explosion went off, so i got trapped in the glass and stuff that fell on me. >> there's been hundreds of people taking to local hospitals. they're trying to help the firefighters that are deceased from the explosion. i've heard very substantial rumors that there are three

Volunteer firefighters that have deceased from the explosion. and i'm with the county justice of the peace with another position in town. we've been told to expect heavy deceased people that we will help pronounce dead. like, right now, they're trying to get the fire under control and trying to get into the building there. >> dr. smith, do you know how many buildings have collapsed to this moment? >> no, because i really can't get to it. my son lives on one of the buildings collapsed. one of the streets closest to there. he was upstairs. he said the upstairs fell downstairs. but he says all of...

People now? >> we're using a community center which is probably five or six miles away. it's at the far, southern end of the town. and the fertilizer plant is at the far northern end of the town. >> and are you and your colleagues and other emergency services able to get to the collapsed properties? or at the moment, can you not do that? >> we can't do that right now because they're still fighting the fire. >> we can't help anybody else if it's not safe to get in. >> obviously, a very dangerous situation for the firefighters continuing to battle the blaze, particularly knowing that so many of ...

I'm here with sanjay gupta. this is develop, we don't know how severe these injuries are. we don't know if people are dead. but you do know about these kinds of injuries. >> and we hear about fertilizer plants in particular, being a concern. some of the concerns are the same concerns you would see in any particular explosion. the sorts of blast injuries we've been talking about here in boston. >> as you know from the explosions here in boston, went to 9 different hospitals. that number is going to end up going to a small hospital in west, about 200, 230 bed hospitals. much different sitwax in ...