look at this local decision. fire responders will retreat to a safe distance. the cessation of the water being sprayed on the take will cause a heat-induced tear. protecting the water way, but setting the thing off like a bomb. that car full of 70,000 gallons of crude oil. this is how we deal with bomb trains, oil trains, when they blow up. we let them burn because we have no choice. we let them blow up and hope they don t take too much with them when they go. that is the strategy. the one in west virginia burned for four days. and like that train, this new train, that is just derailed in galena, illinois. this train, too, was one of the ones with the new and improved
the emergency vehicles that we re now seeing on the screen and maybe just the emergency responders, like you said police and fire responders on the runway now? yes, there is a significance response to the aircraft. miguel marquez also reported that there is this concern of a leak of fuel on the runway. are you seeing any evidence of them inspecting, obviously if fire is there, that s first and foremost on their minds. what are you witnessing if anything with regard to that report? from my vantage point we cannot witness any type of fuel spoil nor any attempt to recover fuel or decome decontaminate. it s hard to tell from the pictures on our screen how bad the weather really is, but there is a significant amount of
and she recounted how everyone has been responding as needed. but as mayor de blasio did say, there may still be people missing. they are still doing a search. they say that there was only 15 minutes of warning, the first call to con ed to come because of a suspected gas leak before the explosion actually took place. so con ed did not get there before the explosion had taken place. there was a five-alarm fire. more than 250 fire responders, and they are trying to contain that as well as they re going to have to dig up under the building, under the street to try to turn off all the gas. so that s obviously a potentially dangerous location as well. they ve got they are at least putting up some phone numbers, which will be available for new york city residents to find out about their family members and the missing. we know from the mayor that at least 18 people have some level of injuries and two are confirmed dead with more missing. and we ll be back in a moment. feed it, and care for
jamie: already deadly results from the summer scorcher that is sweeping the south and the southwest part of the country. look at the numbers. we go to los angeles with more on the heat. dominic? reporter: yes. one elderly man claimed yesterday, after fire responders went to his home in las vegas and discovered that he had died. he did have medical issues to begin with. and the fire department saying they think it was the heat that caused complications and finished him off. but that s precisely the risks that s happening here. in las vegas, it is expected to be 117 today, pushing close to an all-time record there. yesterday, 30 people in an open-air concert had to be taken to the hospital, dued to heat-related problems. they are going to be fine. but as always in las vegas, 40 people were taken to the hospital in total because it s getting so warm.
last thing you said. i think you said you had no additional information on what s burning, is that correct. yes, ma am. and in terms of the fire responders, you said several fire departments. how many are in that area? i don t know if it is as rural as it seems. are there a number of fire departments all within that area? yes, there are. there are. all right. mr. kenyon, thanks so much for joining us. if you can get any other additional information on the people who may be affected by this in terms of injuries, we know about the stay and shelter in place for the two-mile raid us and we certainly are very concerned about those that may have been among the injured in the initial report if in fact that has happened, lester kenyon, the puck information officer for the ascension parish pio office. we ll be right back after this. all business purchases.