up until 1:30 a.m. this morning. we do not have the capacity without water to take them now. how do you inform the patient, as a patient, there is so much on your mind, there is a lot of heavy mind games going on because you re not feeling well, you re sick, an operation, everything else, and now this. how do you inform the patients of what is taking place? well, the patients are being informed this morning as well as family members. we re establishing an 800 number and so if your family member is transferred out, we ll keep a manifest of that. she points out, i can see how orderly thing are. the helicopter took off. it will come back to pick up other patients. they will go to various hospitals. various hospitals. not like they re all going to one hospital. but the operation here is under way and, again, this is all because of a lack of city water. kerry, thanks. thanks for your amazing reporting since last week. look at these pictures from the ground in port arthur, texa
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yeah. we responded out to the plant. with the fire department and sheriff s department or law enforcement officials and ended up seeing small gray smoke turn into black smoke and one of the box fan craters catch on fire. there was container ruptures or pops if you wants to call it that. i know there s everybody is real interested in why i don t call it an explosion. well, there are different forms of explosions and you can go look it up in the dictionary, i don t want to scare our citizens into thinking we re going to have a massive explosion. i appreciate in times like this being careful with language. let s be as accurate as we can. let me ask you this, we understand that you said the sheriff s deputies who responded to the scene along with your teams. we do understand some have been hospitalized or sent to the hospital because of the fumes. can you talk about the potential danger of the fumes either from the fire itself or the fumes
from the chemical that may have been released? from my research and working with subject matter experts and chemists along to try to figure out what the toxic products would be, these materials, he did not that s what s happening what we anticipated, that there would be heavy black smoke that has carbon in it, just like hydrocarbons burning, whether it be gasoline or oil or whatever. so we did have some sheriff s deputies holding that perimeter that end up being caught in the smoke. they were taken to the one was taken to the local hospital and others drove themselves to the hospital. they ve all been checked out and subsequently released from the hospital. we also had five ems workers that went to the hospital as well. as a precautionary measure. it is black smoke whenever