this used to be a neighborhood. there was a duplex just down the way that was completely in sin rated. we got in town about 12:00 midnight, and here is what we saw. this is main street middletown. you can see there is all kinds of torching going on. there s house after house, building after building that s going up in flames. all through town we re hearing explosions. those are propane tanks going up. we ve heard a dozen of those explosions so far. right now they re calling a few firefighters back over the fire radio. we ve heard them calling firefighters back after structures like this are just so fully engulfed in flames, there is no saving them. four firefighters who were burned earlier after being caught by a flare-up were rushed to the hospital where they re now recovering from second-degree burns. while an army of their fellow firefighters are on the lines
obliterated. last night this was an absolute inferno. we got in about midnight. this is main street middletown. there s all kinds of torving going on, there s house after house, building after building that s going up in flames. all through town we re hearing explosions. those are propane tanks going up. we ve heard a dozen of those explosions so far. right now they re calling a few firefighters back over the fire radio. we ve heard them calling firefighters back after structures like this are just so fully engulfed in flames, there s no saving them. four firefighters who were burped earlier after being caught by a flare-up were rushed to the hospital where they re now suffering from second-degree burns. while an army of their fellow firefighters are on the lines across the state at the over 60,000-acre view fire. there s so many homes
absolutely not. i think they were joking about the security on commonwealth avenue this morning. they re set up with big satellites and all this incredible digital data in there, the fbi. they re there all day and all night, and always seems so unnecessary, and now this. shepard: you know, emily, since can he don t know what happened yet i m still pulling for some sort of awful natural accident. reporter: that s what we re hoping, some kind of an accident. shepard: i hope. so the guess is security is pretty nuts around now. reporter: it s crazy. shepard: emily rooney, a report for boston radio. reporter: wgbh. shepard: nice to talk to you. i m glad you re safe. there s new information coming in. from who? jonathan hunt. some of-under staff are monitoring the boston police and fire radio scanners. we re being told the police are asking all bomb squad personnel to report to the finish line
ambush, you know? i am full of many mixed emotions of, a, being here and others not being here. i can t, i can t answer questions when it comes to that, because i don t know why i m still here other than there was some type ofdivine intervention that kept that round from penetrating through my car and hitting something else. so i don t, you know, the true story is about four heroes that were wounded or killed. you know? and for a fireman to lay under his truck almost mortally wounded and give directions, because i ve listened to his account of what happened, is commendable. you know? that guy, under fire, is on his fire radio telling them this is where he is, this is what i see, this is what s going on. and then to have a webster officer actually on scene and for him to actually engage this