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You're based in houston. the city is seeing a significant strain on its medical services. i heard official there's say for 26 minutes on thursday all of san antonio is without any free ems units. meaning they had no available ambulances. >> we're seeing rising cases. every person i see come into the emergency department is covid positive. i think back to the last four shift that's i worked, that fourth shift when leaving the emergency department, i still had a patient that admitted for covid pneumonia on that first shift. and they were still stuck there. that's because the icus are full. our i...

By the calm winds now. we are looking at intense winds in the next hour or two as the storm comes on shore. we do know that a great many of 50 to 60,000 of our residents did heed the warnings and evacuated. we certainly appreciate that. that makes our job as first responders a little bit easier. right now our first responders are unable to respond to calls because of the high winds. we are going through a period where we won't be able to respond to 911 calls. it's just too dangerous to put them out there. we do have assets in place. we have e.m.s. units, search and rescue units that are staged...

This attack. and remember, these shots were being fired from above 32 stories above. it was a very, very difficult situation to defend. 22,000 people in an open area, essentially, pinned in. >> reporter: can we go back two photos? i don't know if this is technically possible, but the fire department medics were wearing vests as well and helmets. now, listen, they weren't just handed out at the scene. unfortunately, in this country, mass casualty shooting situations have become so commonplace that the nation's most proactive and forward-leaning fire departments now have created their own specia...

>> open the door! open the door! >> do you guys mind explaining why we have to put these masks on? >> the short answer is, if you breathe it in, you can die. >> you said you have a nickname for this street. >> morgue. morgue avenue. >> you literally walked in to cash a check. by the time your brother had got in an accident and told paramedic he was on fentanyl. what's it like to go through this? >> hell. hell every day it is hell. ♪ welcome to montgomery county, ohio, where thanks to a drug so powerful it could kill you if you touch it, police work isn't what it used to be. why is a sherif...

Wreckage. we utilize our hydraulic tools to open up the train a little bit more so that we can reach the person, and were able to extra date that person and have them transported to the medical examiner's office. once again, this was a great coordinated effort. the members of our department, the men and women of our department did a great job throughout this whole event. we continue to have an engine and a medic unit on scene just to make sure that everything is done safely as we finish this investigation and going through the wreckage. once again, the great partnership with the police departm...