now dead. the firefighters had superficial injuries. david mattingly is live for us tonight from suwannee, georgia with more. david? reporter: piers, this started as a standard sort of medical call. firefighters got the call that there was someone in medical distress. they showed up at this address, came out with their equipment, had a gurney, went inside the house. and at that point they realized there was something very wrong here. they encountered a man with some kind of weapon who then held him hostage for several hours. we were able to hear the voice of one of the firefighters after they encountered this man. this was from scanner traffic that was overheard as he was radioing back, telling everyone what the situation was that they ran into. listen. we are in a situation where we have a, uh an armed
reporter: piers, this started as a standard sort of medical call. firefighters got the call that there was someone in medical distress. they showed up at this address, came out with their equipment, had a gurney, went inside the house. and at that point they realized there was something very wrong here. they encountered a man with some kind of weapon who then held him hostage for several hours. we were able to hear the voice of one of the firefighters after they encountered this man. this was from scanner traffic that was overheard as he was radioing back, telling everyone what the situation was that they ran into. listen. we are in a situation where we have a, uh an armed person. and he is requesting certain
kind of weapon who then held them hostage for several hours. we were able to hear the voice of one of the firefighters after they encountered this man. this was from scanner traffic that was overheard as he was radioing back, telling everyone what the situation was that they ran into. listen. we are in a situation where we have a, uh an armed person. and he is requesting certain certain utilities to be turned back on at his house. and he is armed, and we are in the room with him. reporter: at this point, authorities saying that was the only demand this man made, was to have his utilities turned back on. negotiators, the s.w.a.t. team,
thank you so much, elizabeth. that debris field is sinking further and could be moved by the current. could have moved dozens of miles from its original location. we don t know what the original location is at this point. right. when you have these large chunks by satellite, by the time they get there, they could, as you point out, be sunk to the ocean. we ll have michael kay coming up talking about what the search patterns are. we have new information about the final hour in that cockpit based on a new transcript on what was said back and forth to flight control. we ll read through about the altitude, climbing, and then a second part of this. here s the first part as the aircraft was radioing back. here mh-370 saying this is mh-370 please climb to altitude 250. going back and forth saying this is our flight we re climbing altitude 250. they continue to climb to 350 and on and on and on.