we re still doing some search and rescue looking for victims. as far as we know, we have everybody accounted for, maybe other than one person. and so we are still doing some searching, seeing that we can find them. we ve got some infrared cameras on drones out in parts of the area looking. so a lot of you know, this area s probably a mile, mile and a half long at least through the city that took the hit. and chief, do you know of any fatalities in your town? i do currently know of three fatalities. and where were those folks? one was on the northeast part of town in the trailer park, and then two in the downtown business district. do you know anything about those victims? no.
you know, i ve been in tons of circles where i m like oh my gosh, people are saying these things and no one is challenging it or i m the only one challenging it. it s just so interesting we have these conversations and they re so focused on kind of twitter and the social media sphere and we have these conversations that just aren t practical in real life. i don t think these are happening. thank you for drawing that distinction between twitter and real life. i think that is an important one to remind everyone of all the time. thank you all for the perspective. okay. so we re following breaking news tonight. a tornado has devastated the town of perryton, texas. we re going to speak to a storm chaser who is bringing victims to the hospital. next. tornado just went through town!
from the kansas border as well. liberal, i believe. that s where i got my hotel at as well. but they have mass convoys of emergency vehicles coming in to help. because there just wasn t e enough. did you see any fatalities, curtis? i can t confirm. there s rumors that there s fatalities in town. but i don t want to say a number because if it s not true i don t want to be that person if there is. but i can t confirm that yet. i just heard rumors there is. but i don t want to confirm it. i understand. and did your warning system on your phone go off? how much warning was there for these tornadoes? i believe on one of the videos in the beginning when the cone tornado was just making its way into town i did have the warning system go off on my phone. another chaser on the other side of town said they heard a siren but on my video you can
that town has for one another. there s no doubt we ll continue to find the people that need to be found and we ll persevere through this thing. it sounds like you will. that is really heartening to hear about your community even at this really tough time. and so how many people do you think are going to have to spend the night there in the school? there s no telling. we have another building here in town that s opened up. i m trying to get the word spraez because i don t know how many supplies are at our county expo center just because of the vast amount of supplies we ve had brought here. the whole northeast side of perryton is just it s just devast devastating. we have two big basketball gyms. we have five, six locker rooms that have showers available. and we re just making it known that if they need a place to lay their head that they re safe here. so coach, beyond prayers what do you need right now?
to look over that mobile home park? yes. yes. i couldn t actually get to the mobile home park on foot. there was a gas leak, and with all the downed power lines and trees there was just no way to get to it. in fact, i feel like it took a while for emergency responders to get there as well because whenever i was flying around it looked like people were just having to self-rescue themselves. people were climbing out of rubble. you know, there was the fire nearby. it was just a really, really horrible scene. later in the day, though, you know, on the other side of town i saw some really amazing things. like there was a house in a road. and the road needed to be cleared. so it needed to be bulldozed and people were rushing in there, grabbing everything they could, putting it in bags. they ended up making this pile of like 20-foot-tall of all these bags that people had salvaged from the home that lay in the road. brian, when he see what you