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Sunday, September 14, 2008

The First Responders' Story

The LA Times has the story of the first responders to the Metrolink train crash on Friday:
Four minutes after the call, just before 4:30 p.m. Friday, they pulled up to the Chatsworth house where a resident had called 911, at the end of Heather Lee Lane. Barrios could see the smoke now. He sprinted to the back of the house and stared through a chain-link fence. This was no car wreck.

"We are on scene," Barrios barked into his radio. "We have a train collision."

The rescue effort that would unfold from that moment would involve hundreds of firefighters, law enforcement officers and others and would shock the senses of even the most hardened veterans.

Read the story - these guys had to deal with some terrible things and did so with great skill and dedication.

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