mass disaster category which put 18 medic units in service automatically which activated some others. we moved a lot of personnel onto the scene in rapid order and most of those personnel are still on the scene as the investigation continues. we re anticipating the ntsb to be here in philadelphia. they have been activated and we need cranes and other equipment that s also been activated, waiting for them. they cannot move the cars until ntsb is on the scene because they will ultimately take over. right. when you were talking about the fire department having to cut people out of the mangled wreckage, did they need to be cut out because they were trapped and they were transported to the hospital? were these people who were just trapped because they simply had no other way to get out? are these the most critical or
please call that number if you re concerned you might have a relative or family member on this train and we can work with you to verify that and additionally the northeast corridor is currently shut down and we ll be focused on bringing it back to service as soon as we can once the scene is clear for amtrak to begin work. hold on for a second. two last pieces of information. the fire department is in command on this particular scene. all information, again, is very preliminary. we will do our best to answer any questions, but i need you to understand if we don t have the information, we re not going to speculate. we do not know what happened here. we do not know why this happened. there is no information about that. we are not going to speculate about it. we ll try to answer any other questions that you might have. go ahead. how many people were hospitalized and what s the nature of their injuries? again, six were critical. a total of 53 were transported by either medic units or
derek sawyer who provide a time loob line of exactly what happened. take a listen. 9:3. fire personnel responded encountered six overturned trains. we declare it a mass casualty event. at 9:35. we struck out the third alarm. then at 10:24 we struck the fourth alarm. as the mayor said that brings 33 apparatus, 122 personnel. it is a level three mass casualty incident means 18 medic units brought on scene. we have a total of six critical transports to temple university, einstein, tarsdale, and a total of 43 transports, buses, medic units for less critical injuries. others are walking wounded. derek sawyer there. former the new york times safety expert matthew wald said
we can work with you to verify that and northeast corner will be shut down. we ll be focused on bringing it back to service as soon as we can. hold on just a moment. two pieces of information. the fire department is in command on this particular scene. all information, again, is very preliminary. we ll do our best to answer questions but i need you to understand that if we don t have information we re not going to speculate. we do not know what happened here. we do not know why this happened. there is no information about that. we re not going to speculate about it. we ll try to answer any other questions that you might have. go ahead how many people were hospitalized and what is the nature of their injuries? again, six were critical. a total of 53 transported by either medic units or buses. most injuries at the front of
top of the initial 5 medic units i m going to need another five tore a total of ten medic units at this location. incident commander struck out the third we need an additional five medical units at this staging area. we have over 50 patients we still have multiple rescues to be made. still pulling out a lot of patients and the area on the tracks are still hot. you ve been listening to the philadelphia emergency radio transmission as the amtrak tragedy played out. the train version, a big black box, data recorder has been recovered from the scene of the derailment and noup the ntsb tries to determine what happened in moments before the train went off the track sending passengers flying through the cars. more than 200 people have been