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The scene here on buses, septa buses. there are police officers on there, other police and fire personnel. several buses were headed to the scene as we came up again with police officers on board. with septa personnel. everybody trying to help out here on the scene. and lend whatever hand they can, we are about a block and a half from the actual derailment scene. can t see much past the police line right here lots of personnel, lots of heavy equipment, lots of firefighting equipment, up and down this entire block here. you know, dave, bruce has been on the phone, and he s been on the scene there, not far from you, i guess, he s mentioned he s never seen anything like this response in all of his years in philadelphia. i know you ve been around for a long time and can you give us your insight as to the magnitude of what you re seeing out there? well let me say this the closest thing to this recently was the building collapse on market street at 22nd and market ....
I would imagine private ambulances as well. numerous police cars police vans suvs, headed to the scene, breaking past us on broad street heading to the scene. port richmond as we speak, this is an all hands on deck situation. something they planned for, trained for, we haven t had something like this in the philadelphia area in quite a bit of time. you have to train all the time one of the things we can see here is the ladder you see to the right of your screen there s a ladder on the train car, you see it right there zm it goes into one of the windows, they can get into the car itself i mean logistically this is a nightmare to try to find people in mangled metal, the force of the impact can throw people through windows if the car rips open you have people everywhere they have too find all of them if you re unconscious, you re not i want to bring our viewers up to date on what we are seeing right now, an amtrak train has ....
Front of us. were you in the third car? about the third car. so before the train shifted to the right, did you feel like it was going fast? did you feel did you have instinct it was going too fast? i mean it felt like a regular amtrak kind of thing. okay. and in terms of the condition of the victims on the scene? what did you observe? there were people that were very injured and people just had covered p dust some dust and cuts. some people have broken arms. i was with the crew that got ....
Area and north philadelphia and so forth. and frankly it s a rather depressing sight as you come into the city many factories have been vacant for many years, this is a similar scenario here in terms of industrial commercial not as much residential, not a neighborhood per say in the immediate vicinity. this is tragic a tragedy, anyway you cut it bruce. i guess at least there s no row homes being taken out and people being taken out. i don t know how close you can get to the scene, you don t want to get in the way of first responders saving people s lives, what we re looking at from sky fox, let me just tell you, one of these things we have just zoomed in, it s a complete mangled mess of metal. i mean it s twisted to the point that you cannot even recognize it. i m wondering if that was a train car or it s some other ....
You ve been listening to all of this unfold what are you seeing what do you know? it s an incredible scene out here we re on the 2200 block of east butler street right next to the conrail frankford junction yard the sign says safety is our first priority. it s an incredible scene of police and firefighters an army of both i m watching right now, a couple firefighters drag a gurney up to the area where the crash has no doubt occurred. i spoke by phone a couple minutes ago, with former bucks county congressman patrick murphy he did not want to speculate in terms of the extent of the damage and the injuries and so forth, he did say it looks very bad. the photos that we ve undoubtedly shared with viewers so far, one in particular, showing the dining car at a 45 degree angle. a number of folks inside that car with blood on their forehead and various parts of their bodies everywhere you look there are police officers ....