we knew that someone had gotten inside the base and we knew that it was the agency that had been hit. and we knew it was bad. by the time we got on the scene, it was an ugly scene. the conventional unit that was there landed the helicopter right in the courtyard and evaced as many of the wounded as possible. he said jen didn t make it. our logistics chief that we had worked with to close the base on a daily basis didn t make it. and some of her case officers never made it even back to the you know, they died on the scene.
we knew that someone had gotten inside the base and we knew that it was the agency that had been hit. and we knew it was bad. by the time we got on the scene, it was an ugly scene. the conventional unit that was there landed the helicopter right in the courtyard and evaced as many of the wounded as possible. he said jen didn t make it. our logistics chief that we had worked with to close the base on a daily basis didn t make it. and some of her case officers never made it even back to the you know, they died on the scene.
management, and other numerous agencies responded to west to assist. many ambulance companies, medical personnel also assisted here, as well. and they are still here, trying to help and get the wounded out. most of the wounded are being taken to a local hospital, where they re being triaged. they re also setting that up as a resource center for people to be evaced, because we are evacuating homes in the area based on the ongoing danger of the fires that were still there. some are still going on. they got most of them under control. but they are trying to move people out and get them evacuated out of that area still. at this point, we don t know the number that have been killed. i will confirm there have been fatalities. i think we will see those fay it wills increase as we get towards the morning.
wounded are being taken to the abbott area to a local high school. that s where they re being triaged. they re setting that up as a resource center for people to be evaced to because we are evacuating homes in the area, based on the ongoing danger of the fires that were still there. some are still going on. they got most of them under control. they are trying to move people out and get people evacuated out of that area still. i just talked to my commander, who is on the ground there, in the scene. he s telling me that he has seen extreme devastation in homes, in some of the businesses. they are still getting injured folks out. and they are evacuating people from their homes. at this point, we don t know a number that have been killed. i will confirm there have been fatalities. i think we will see those fatalities increase as we get towards the morning.
screaming and frighting and remember the trash how it piled up in the hallway toilets over flowing and bathrooms filthy. and remember the distinct smell. it was difficult thing to forget and on top of that crime, rapes and murder and suicides. many of those reports turned out to be false. but the nightmare itself was real. we were here last night because of the between the saints and chargers. he goes to the saint s games all of the time. he was rack vaced here to katrina. he had to come in here and he had to come in here and live. it was not clean. it was no organization. the police did the best they could do. but everything else was too many people for the police to