officials. one person suffered a heart attack, apparently according to reports, fatal heart attack, others smoke inhalation. because of the massive amount of smoke from the building, and we have been seeing that. the fire rage and smoke coming up. people we have seen some reports it was chaotic, pandemonium, and then as you just heard from our guests over the phone, others are saying it was very well-coordinated. the evacuation effort. very professionally. this is a relatively new building. seven years old. so one would presume it would have a state of state to of the art system. one side of the building was engulfed in flames. does not appear that it spread throughout the rest of the building. it s unclear how this started.
in our favor, but it only takes a few individuals, a lone wolf or a small cell to do something like this, particularly if you re just talking about using firearms and not a highly sophisticated or coordinated, you know, multilocation attack. so, i think over the holiday season you ll see law enforcement in cities like new york and washington ramping up security and telling people to remain vigilant because it is a concern. but not to panic. we re not in a state of, you know, lockdown. there s no direct, specific imminent threat just a general warning which law enforcement has been worried about to be quite frank for a while. a lot of people when i was in paris when i got back last night the prime minister said there s a real threat of a chem scal or biological attack, that took a lot of people by surprise. does it surprise you? well, you know, i m not sure what intelligence that is based on. it s something that for years intelligence officials are worried about different types of t
what were their conditions? reporter: i would say that they were in a state of they were horrified blatantly, on what they saw. some of them were holding their heads, helped by police out of the nightclub, and just trying to get a grip. you say they were holding their heads. were they saying anything? reporter: i couldn t hear any words because i was not that close. i was about 30 to 40 yards, from the entrance of the bataclan nightclub. i could hear a few quite horrifying screams. and it was chaos and i could imagine because this theater holds about 1500. that is a pretty big crowd. reporter: a lot of people
we spoke to don lemon about the emergency response during the rescue mission. it s a war zone, a central paris very known district with a lot of young people going out. and it was turned into a war zone for a few hours. armored vehicles about 200, 300 police. every few minutes or so, we could hear shouts, screams, horrified screams coming from inside the theatre. and then as the hostages were evacuated from outside the theatre. so talk to us about the hostages who were brought out. what are their conditions? i would say they were in a state of they were horrified.
at this moment i cannot say. we re not just in front of the bataclan. what i can say that earlier the scene was one of a war zone, one of a central paris very, very, very known district with a lot of young people going out and it was turned into a war zone for a few hours. armored vehicles, about 200, 300 police. heavily armed police, tactical teams taking up positions. the atmosphere was very, very tense. and every few minutes we could hear shouts, screams, horrified screams coming from inside theater. as the hostages were evacuated from outside theater. so talk to us about the hostages who were brought out. what were their conditions? i would say that they were in a state of they were horrified, blatantly by what