hospital, st. john s, in the emergency room. there was no light. and we had very little flashlights. they were screaming and looking for their loved ones and saying that they couldn t find them. and they wanted someone to help them. reporter: more than 100 patients were inside the nine-story hospital. gurneys, wheelchairs, tossed hundreds of yards away. x-rays, medical records dumped two counties away, 60 miles, carried by the tornado. and inside the hospital, there was triage, there was rushing to help, but still, so many died. rod pace, one of the medical flight managers, described holding on to a door trying to keep it shut against the suction as it tore the building apart. we were holding the door closed. we were trying to hold the door closed. it felt like the door would move. i have heard people talk about a building and how it breathes when it is on fire. it felt like that building was breathing. that door would move in and out.
emergency room. there was no light. and we had very little flashlights. they were screaming and looking for their loved ones and saying that they couldn t find them. and they wanted someone to help them. reporter: more than 100 patients were inside the nine-story hospital. gurneys, wheelchairs, tossed hundreds of yards away. x-rays, medical records dumped two counties away, 60 miles, carried by the tornado. and inside the hospital, there was triage, there was rushing to help, but still, so many died. rod pace, one of the medical flight managers, described holding on to a door trying to keep it shut against the suction as it tore the building apart. we were holding the door closed. we were trying to hold the door closed. it felt like the door would move. i have heard people talk about a building and how it breathes when it is on fire. reporter: right. it felt like that building was breathing. that door would move in and out. could you feel the suction?
trying to get back to salvage what they could, some of the possessions they wanted to get out of their destroyed homes before this weather came in. obviously, they ll have to stop that for the time being. looking at the pictures of that hospital. absolutely unbelievable, and reported that so far away x-rays are found. what s happened to all the people who were in the hospital? reporter: yeah. what s remarkable, chris, they were able to this is a pretty good sized facility. nine-story hospital. they were able to evacuate it according to the fire chief last night in 90 minutes time. don t know how many patients were in the hospital at the time, but they ve been transported to a sister facility over in springfield. over into arkansas, others have gone into kansas, and then others elsewhere in oklahoma. so there are a number of hospitals that have taken on patients. we don t know about any fatalities inside st. john s regional medical center, but we are hearing there may have been o