know, chief weathercaster our meteorologist wants to ask you a question. go ahead, chad. brian, i watched your video live on youtube. obviously you were streaming the entire event. and i noticed you put the drone up and got the pictures and you were a reporter for a bit. for a few seconds. but then all of a sudden you turned into a first responder. describe to our viewers how this happens all the time when chasers chase to a town and the town is hit they stop chasing and they start responding. well, i mean, there s nothing really else you can do. when you see a town you know, because i know what those moments are like and i know that you know, know normal situation a first responder can just go to where they need to go. but in a situation like this the town is basically on its own for a while. there s too many things to respond to at once. so anything i can do to help,
a direct hit and while not every part of the downtown is destroyed it is heavily damaged. basically all the windows are blown out. parts of the roof. parts of the buildings. so once you know, i had found all of the residential and i was actually by the industrial area watching the tornado there. when i saw the downtown i was just like this is just not a good thing. i mean, basically the heart of the town, just the tornado went right through it. it really honestly just made me really sad because i was like there s no part of this town that was really okay. brian, are you from here? no. i am from arkansas. and so you knew that there was a tornado outbreak? texas? why did you happen to be positioned here at this hour? yeah, that s what i do. i have basically two full-time jobs. one is storm chasing and one is
fire department in some quite time. but i do have some knowledge of helping people. but when it comes to the severity of it, probably not. i d probably leave it to the experts. were there people were there emergency, you know, ems people who were able to get there? what we ve heard is it was impossible for some emergency services to make it to some of these places. yeah. so there was a lot of power lines down throughout much of the neighborhood. basically where i parked my car i walked about a good quarter mile or half a mile into the neighborhoods to help people. i couldn t really drive them because there were so many power lines and destruction that was blocking most of the roads. and i think the fire department in town they couldn t get their vehicles out because their building collapsed on most of their vehicles. so they had emergency vehicles coming in from all over the place, from different towns and counties. i remember when i was finally leaving town they had a convoy of
which even includes showing the area and the country how bad it is so that the necessary researchers can come in. and by later today they were starting to get those resources. there t streaming into town. and hopefully some of us that played a small part in that. hey, brian, what time did this happen? the video that we re seeing right now. oh, you got me on that. what time did it happen when you were taking that drone video? well, the drone video was shortly was shortly after the tornado. i mean, as soon as it stopped hailing, i basically had the drone in the air. so within 10 or 15 minutes. it was around 6:00 is when so the tornado was i think a little bit after 5:00. and by 6:00 i d already had the drone in the air actually for a little while. i would have had it up sooner.