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

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
Aloha,
Lei
Aloha,
Lei
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