figure out what went wrong last night in west, texas. gretchen: let s look at the map because this shows you the reverberation as they maybe we don t have it. there it is. we have the plant in the center and 500 feet out. you can see that nursing home brian was referring to where an entire wing apparently flattened. a middle school, luckily nobody probably at the school during this time. a high school nearby. 2,500 feet away from the plant is where i-35 is, which is a major thoroughfare that goes north-south from dallas into austin, texas. that s where our own casey stegall has been reporting from through much of the night. he s with us again doing a fantastic job bringing us up to speed on what exactly has happened there. good morning again, casey. good morning to you guys. thanks for that. there s been one chaotic night. you can imagine. officials here are still at this hour, many hours later after this all happened, dealing with what they are characterizing as a
would be and the concussion felt and heard for miles and miles away, just absolutely incredible, a true catastrophe unfolding here. gretchen: casey stegall in west, texas. we ll touch base with you very soon. thanks so much. steve: meanwhile, casey just alluded to that home video we started to show you. a father capturing this incredible explosion packing an extremely powerful punch. people as far as 30 miles away reportly felt it and heard the blast. brian: we want to show you this powerful explosion. you can see it where the town is over in west, texas. this is relation to dallas, how it relates to dallas, austin, as well as waco. here you can see how far out it was felt. people reportedly thought it was an earthquake, running out to see what was going on. it measured 2.5 on the richter scale. in amarillo, one man who lives in west was at his cousin s house in the next town at the time. he describes the moment of
magnitude. what happened is it was so powerful that it actually shook the ground and produced some waves that were felt in the city where it was recorded in amarillo in texas. that s more than 400 miles away from the city of west. these waves traveled a far distance to be recorded in the city of amarillo, which is actually in the panhandle of texas. incredible stuff. people in the city of waco were reported to have felt shaking of the ground. they felt some of the shaking in dallas. incredible stuff. those are reports from people in those areas, just i can believe that, an explosion shook the ground and produced these waves that were felt in amarillo. that s incredible. steve: it just goes to show you how big a boom it was. all right. thank you very much. thank you. gretchen: we know at least three firefighters are missing at this time. they were volunteers. as we wait to hear about the full extent of the devastation in texas, the mayor of the town of west is asking for your pr
distribution service personnel have been in touch with them. it sound like it was a really huge variance from severe burns being helicoptered into dallas to the parkland hospital burn center. and it was even as small as lacerations and bruises. there will be a lot of people undergoing surgery, i m sure. there were people undergoing lots of care overnight. i think we just don t really have a good feel for what the extent of the injuries are unless we re right on the ground inside the hospital. gretchen: linda, you re requesting people who are o-negative because that s the universal blood type; correct sph it is. i think what every community blood center would tell you across the country, we do need the blood to keep coming. in our area we serve so many hospitals more than 200 so we need to see about 1,100 donors every day. and that is on a day without this kind of tragedy going on. as you can imagine, we need that blood to keep coming
dallas received about nine burn patients. brian: the array of injuries that you re seeing, have they varied? yes, they varied from minor to moderate. we had one patient in critical condition. but thankfully they have been upgraded to stable condition. that s wonderful news. we only had one critical patient. brian: have you been able to ask them where they were during the explosion? i m wondering if it would be possible to survive if you were anywhere close. that is a great question. i know some people were close. we are focusing more on the patients care right now. many of them are in shock and are sharing their stories with their caregivers, but i don t have their direct stories at this time. gretchen: we would assume all the people at your hospital will survive if they are not the most critically injured? exactly. we have seen no fatalities. the most recent report i heard from hillcrest, they have seen no fatalities either. we ve only had 12 patients