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Things out here is the scanner traffic. the police officers talking about that, talking about hand grenades and additional bombs. police officers at the scene have been ordered to power down their cell foarngs presumably out of fear they could trigger additional explosives. there is a huge area that has been cordoned off here -- i shouldn't say huge, but 3 blocks. there is a terrific police presence out here. it looks like 15 police agents, according to communications that we have gotten so far who, have be called out to the scene here. so the police are certainly responding with -- with a tre...

Extent that these guys appear to be. >> exactly. you don't hear about the explosive devices. you know, you mentioned long rifles and all the things you have been hearing in the scanner traffic. is there anything that you can tell us about the initial quote/unquote robbery, the beginning of all of this? >> reporter: yeah. i don't know -- i don't know that much about it. it happened -- it happened very quickly... in terms of the information came in just that there was a shooting on campus. and then it came -- we got a little bit more information that it was an m.i.t. campus police officer, who h...

Last night. >> we were listening together to sergeant william swanson, from the waco police department, who is in the town of west to assist them. and he was saying, there at 7:50, about six hours ago, their concern were the very containers that were holding this anhydrous ammonia. and under these sorts of concentrations, when they're placed in these containers, is when the danger is the most. >> exactly. >> that's what they were trying to fight earlier on. wasn't it? and then, he described it as, well, a lost battle. >> yeah. i was listening to the scanner traffic. a replay of the scanner tra...

Information to even really to members of the press because, understandably so, because this is such a large-scale incident, it is literally all hands on deck. i was listening to scanner traffic, streamed via the web. and at one point, it was all happeneds on deck situation. and all ambulances in the vicinity, everyone was dispatched to that area. in fact, there were not enough blrngs we understand to get patients to hospitals and very early on from the local news outlets in the area that pates and victims were loaded up into, you know, ups cars and squad cars and police were floors transportin...

Now dead. the firefighters had superficial injuries. david mattingly is live for us tonight from suwannee, georgia with more. david? >> reporter: piers, this started as a standard sort of medical call. firefighters got the call that there was someone in medical distress. they showed up at this address, came out with their equipment, had a gurney, went inside the house. and at that point they realized there was something very wrong here. they encountered a man with some kind of weapon who then held him hostage for several hours. we were able to hear the voice of one of the firefighters after th...