Speaking to officials about that report. What are they saying . Reporter there is a caveat. The santa rosa fire official tells me pg e power lines sparked fires at these three locations throughout the city. Winds like those that you see from here that night are the likely culprit here of the initial culprit for starting these fires. This is video from october 8, the ninth at the wine country fire raging out of control. The high wind is blowing dirt toward our camera, and threatens to topple our lights, and the Santa Rosa Fire Department told me three fires that broke out that night were an active Mother Nature initially. Wind played a contributing factor in the ignition of the fire. Reporter and he said it was high winds that triggered what happened next. We were able to identify that we actually were physically able to witness sparks coming from the utility that were directly associated with the wind. Reporter specifically he said, pg e utility lines sparked the flames that burned two
Dozens of cars and hundreds of spectators took over the intersection on high street leading to the 880 onramp. There was a second location further up on high street outside of foothill high school. The illegal activity left the streets and a few people robbed this convenience store. The exxon gas station owner let us record the surveillance video. The store was locked and only a security window was open to customers. Just after 2 am, a man is seen kicking through the glass door. This the security alarm is hit but several people rush into the store and start grabbing items. They entered into the store. There was no injury to the staff. Reporter there were no injuries reported. Customers were surprised to hear sideshow came onto such a small intersection. I actually was walking near foothill square. It was 10 pm and i saw a lot of smoke. I heard cars revving. I walked up and there were 20 or 30 cars parked in the middle of the street. Reporter he is surprised that even a small sideshow w
New york to miami. Do we have paul kirby on the phone with the lexington ledger some we are waiting to get paul. He is there on the scene and he is trying to get more information for us. You can see the route there. You just saw the route there from new york to orlando. We know this train was traveling south because we talked to d derrick pett away and he was on a sleeper train and he was sleeping when he felt the jolt. His Passenger Car had derailed but was still upright. And we talked to him just a short time ago. Take a listen. No, im fine. I was discharged from the hospital about 30 minutes ago just with minor whiplash but im fine. With minor whiplash. All right. We are glad that youre okay, derek. Can you kind of walk us through what happened . Where were you on the train . We were closer to the rear of the train in one of those sleeper cabins and just when the accident happened. I mean, i was dead asleep and i was awoken by the impact and then the crew came through really quickly
Little touching for me i just got off that g. O. P. Retreat where there was a train crash. What strikes you on the train is there is no seat belts. Ed thankfully most people were safe including you and your family but one person did died in that crash as well. Rachel 50 people injured and two dead. Today. Todd these numbers. We have both been through this ed and obviously rachel was literally just in it when u. Get these numbers early usually a harbinger of not good things going forward. Ed they have been telling us at least 25 people brought to a hospital there this n. South carolina. Remind me a little bit of another major crash march 12th 20rbgs 15. Amtrak 18 traveling here in the northeast corridor between new york and washington, d. C. Remember, it was going twice the speed limit of 50 Miles Per Hour. Hit a curve around philly. 8 people were killed then. More than 200 injured. We havent seen a tras crash ths large since then. Two dead. 50 plus injured. When you get the numbers thi
Long did it take Response Teams to get there with the buses to get the injured out . The buses took a little longer, but we got a lot of ambulances on the scene quickly. Our Fire Services very well equipped, very well trained, that i got here very quickly and began to treat people and to sort them. They brought the triage kits out and began to sort the most injured. There were the green tagged who were the less injured or not injured at all, and the yellow and red tags. Those went straight to the hospitals in columbia. We know there were two fatalities in this, i dont know if you have had any word, we dont know if it was from the csx train or the amtrak train, have you heard anything about that . That has not been released and the coroner has not released any information other than two people have passed. Anything else to describe on the scene, any indication as to why this collision happened . No, i will tell you again, this is near a freight yard where they unload new automobiles to