tonight we re hearing from families who lost family members in the tornado. 9-year-old ja nae hornsby was the first victim identified yesterday. the third grader always had a smile on her face. her father talked about getting the call from the medical examiner s office and about how faith is helping him to stay strong. and then he told me that she had passed and they had her there, and just rage just came over me. she was telling me that, you know, it s going to be okay. not to dwell on it, you know, not to let it get me down. she s always going to be here with me. six othertudents from her school also died. news4 s erika gonzalez spent the day talking with people in the hardest-hit areas in oklahoma. she joins us live now with more. what are you finding out? reporter: doreen, things are still a wreck here in moore. i mean when you take a look around behind me, there s still wood all over the place. you ve heard me say it before, it looks like a lumberyard exploded in
mystics. taldawkins left the party, and e received a call saying that her son had been shot.shot i don t know the nature of this, i have no idea why he would have been in this yard. i don t know which direction hei came from.came if he came from that direction,e whatever happened, he would have went to my sister s house here.e so i don t know how i don t know. i just don t know. know after dawkins was hit insiden of this fenced in yard, police, say the deputy who was on touty remained on the scene. sc it s that there may have been an altercation and they weretioh trying to piece together whattht the facts were. were i won t say i m angry, but shocked, maybe. yosu know, i m hurt, i mean that was my own son. reporter: earlier friends of dawkins have been coming to the scene, some of them leaving mementos. he worked for a shuttle driverur and had been there since june of 2010. craig patterson was taken to police headquarters after theert shooting and was releasedd pe
i don t believe my members tampered with anything and there should be an investigation to dispel any rumors that might be out there. reporter: ed stone, head of the firefighters union, says none of his members have stolen gas from ambulances and counters that some of the gas gauges on the vehicles in the street just couldn t work. some of the apparatus the fuel gauges just don t work, so the firefighters have to get fuel every day to make sure the units stay topped off. i m aware of three ambulances that we re having some problems with their gas gauges. reporter: i m told right now the d.c. fire department has a fleet of over 90 ambulances, but roughly 1/3 of those vehicles are out now for general maintenance or repairs. they ve got some 13 new ambulances on the way by the end of the summer and as one shall said to me about this afternoon, those vehicles cannot get here soon enough. bruce johnson, southwest washington, wusa9. so the fire department has refused our r