Heroes and Dramatic Rescues

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Heroes and Dramatic Rescues
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Sat, 09-13-2008 - 6:00pm

WARNING: This post is graphic. Reader discretion is advised.


Yesterday at about 4:23 in the afternoon a double Decker metrolink commuter train carrying 220 passengers and a freight train had a head on collision. Both trains were on the same track going about 40-60 mph and hit head on. Home owners who lived next to the train tracks ran to help the injured when they heard the trains collide and saw a mushroom type cloud rise from the accident scene. One homeowner who lived right next to the train tracks said she went to help this man who was bleeding profusely and when she went to help him his brains fell out of his head. This one kid fell out of wreckage dazed and confused without his arms attached to his body.  Some of the local people who arrived on the scene first ran into the burning train wreckage pulling people out and then vomiting because the bloody bodies inside were mangled so badly. People were screaming for help  as other commuter riders were gently rocking the dead and carrying for the bleeding wounded  in their laps.  Other train commuters  were thrown from the wreckage and landed all over the train tracks and were just laying there  covered with so much blood that you could not tell if they were male or female. As the rescue efforts continued on throughout out the night the death toll rose to 25 people dead and over 190 people injured. I watched as this one dead body draped with an American flag was gently removed from the train wreckage. One hundred  Police officers and firefighters stood and saluted as one of their fellow comrades dead body passed them by and then taken to the coroners van. I saw maybe 80 to 100 ambulances line up down the residential streets which were located next to the train tracks waiting to take their turn to carry the wounded away.  I cried as I saw the dead and injured airlifted by helicopter and carted away in a parade red blinking lights in ambulances.   The accident site looked like a bloody war zone!


I thought I would describe what I saw because it would help you the reader to feel what I feel. These people need your prayers and positive vibes big time ladies. Mahalo Leilani


 

Aloha,


Lei


 

Aloha,

Lei

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 7:18pm

HI Lei


We saw some of the coverage of the train wreck here right after it happenned. Such a horrible accident and being there to witness it would have been just terrible. I am sending prayers for those that were injured and for the families that lost their loved ones.


HUGS


                          &n
Avatar for hulagirl_leilani
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-31-2003
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 3:56pm
My girlfriend was one of the homeowners who ran to help these commuters when the train crashed. She said the images will haunt her forever. Horrible descriptions of the carnage ha Mary? If she had not called me for help then I would of thought hoo humm another train crash but her imagery of what she saw put a personal spin to the horrible train wreck.

Aloha,


Lei


Aloha,

Lei

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 8:25pm
This is just horrible! Did you say you went to your friend to help?



       


 


                              &n

Avatar for cmkarla
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Registered: 01-03-2001
Mon, 09-15-2008 - 12:19pm
How completely horrible. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families and friends.

Karla
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