and other emergency crews on the scene i ll let you take a look for yourself. the hospital is in lockdown and seems to be under control. according to someone who was here moments after the shooting that i talked with shortly before going on the air, he has heard we have not independently confirmed this as many as three people were shot by the gunmen. it has been said that the gunman fired on the 16th floor of the hospital injuring at least one person there. that person reportedly making it to the ninth floor. two other people reportedly shot on the eighth and second floor. i emphasize again, we have not confirmed this information. the person i talked to on the scene said he had heard that as many as three people had been shot. authorities have not yet identified the gunman.
that skill unclear. we ll get you confirmation on that. we can tell tu three of those victims are in serious condition with gunshot wounds. also told from the source r. unfortunately, there happened on the 16th floor of the hospital. he was wearing a lab coat and also had some sort of i.d. on him identifying someone as well. one of the witnesses describing blood on the walls, blood on a staircase at the facility as well. so a horrendous scene there at the hospital. and you also have to imagine what investigators are dealing with at the hospital themselves, the folks who work there. not only do you have an active investigation going on there, but you also have hundreds and
hours. but it looks like it could have been more than 100 people on scene. they had to get to the 16th and 17th floors is where we re told this is happening. when they got to the area, they told everybody in this hospital lock yourselves down, don t leave whatever room you re in. make every effort to state away from windows and doors. we don t know where the suspect is. the police made their way to the 16th and 17th floors. they found that was the place where the shooter barricaded himself. they locked everybody down, went door-to-door and then fox5 in new york city reported of a small fire on the 16th floor. here s the location of that. you can see midtown man had tan there on the center of the screen. that s central park there. in the bronx by yankee stadium, that s where the hospital is. at any rate, they swarmed the building, went in, apparently we ll learn from police at some point took out the suspect in
themselves, with assault-style weapons into a location. so i think you will see a lot of what the response is today to that incident. we ll be reflective of the training and the commitment to resourcing its officers the cross training with the new york city fire department to deal with a fire in a so-called hot zone. all of that will be playing out over the next minutes and moments as they attempt to locate and disable the shooter. i will ask you one question about these fires we are hearing about possibly on the 8th floor and on the 16th floor, there seems to be smoke being seen from there. can the fire department go into a hospital to try to fire if the hospital has not been secured? that s correct. there has been training conducted over the last several years. i observed one that we did about six months before i left as commissionner 2016, where the idea is that that had been a
conflicting reports about whether others have been shot. we also have reports that there was a fire on the eighth floor of the hospital and that there was smoke coming out of the 16th floor. you ve got a helicopter shot on the right side of your screen, which does not show any smoke. but we did see very large numbers of firefighters assemble moments ago outside the hospital. it is unclear whether they have gone in. we ll try to get that information in a moment. but you see a very, very large police presence around the bronx. this is a very busy area of the bronx. grand concourse is a major thoroughfare in the bronx and bronx-lebanon hospital a not for profit private hospital in the bronx is a major medical center in the bronx. i want to go to nbc news reporter adam reese who s on the scene for us now. he s joining me on the phone. adam, i think you were there moments ago when we got confirmation that the shooter is