Can wrap your arms around it. That unknown contributes to that apprehension. Lot of people arent really familiar with san bruno if they are another town but your mall here is set up right next to the bart station. And that is why it may have been easy for someone to get on board bart. Yeah and it is not uncommon. Our Police Station is located close to the station as well. And when we thefts or other crimes at the mall it is not uncommon for these people the go to bart. So we know that is an avenue for them. It is not uncommon for those types of things to happen with your more day to day type of criminal activity. Can we talk with the fire chief. Would you tell us about the victims and what they are doing and how . Responded at the request of p. D. For a shooter. Updated information included multiple victims. Ultimately Additional Resources were asked. We had a second alarm and declared a mci, a mass casualty incident. A total of four ambulances were dispatched as well. Initial crews as
and it was definitely a scary experience. reporter: i don t know if you can hear us right now. this siren just started going off behind us. paula works inside of barnes & nobles inside the mall and ushered a lot of people to safety and they all hid inside of her store. they we they were hiding inside the store in barnes & noble in the dark. tell us about the people running towards. well at first. gives you sense what s happening out there right now. obviously police vehicles are still with their sirens coming. still a lot of heavily armed officers. i know you can t hear the interview very well but gives a sense how the threat is still very real in the area around tanforan mall right now. let s go down to abc7 news