WOMEN FROM THE FIRE APARTMENT TO GET HERE AND GET THE SITUATION UNDER CONTROL.
RIGHT NOW, WE NEED EVERYONE TO BE PRAYING FOR THE PEOPLE WE KNOW ARE IN SERIOUS CONDITION AND WHO HAVE SUFFERED INJURIES DUE TO THIS UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT.
WE WILL MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS DOING EVERYTHING TO SECURE THE SCENE.
WE WILL GET THE INFORMATION AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE AND CONTINUING ON THE CONDITIONS OF THE RESIDENCE AND THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE BUILDING.
WE ARE THANKFUL AND GRATEFUL THAT WE HAVE LIFE-SAVING WORK DONE BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY AND SHOWN US CONTINUOUSLY THAT THEY ARE READY
FOR THE CHALLENGES THEY MEET.
WE NEED TO PRAY FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE INSIDE OF THIS BUILDING AND PRAY THAT THEY ALL HAVE A SPEEDY AND FOR RECOVERY.
NOW I WILL TURN IT OVER TO COUNCIL PRESIDENT MOSBY FOR SOME REMARKS.
>> THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.
THIS IS AN UNFORTUNATE SITUATION BUT WE KNOW AT THIS TIME THAT THE RAPID RESPONSE OF THE AMAZING WORKERS FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, POLICE DEPARTMENT AND OEM ARE CRITICAL BUT IT ALSO
HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANT NEED OF WHAT WE HAVE HERE IN OUR AMAZING HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE.
WE WOULD LOVE TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION AND CONTINUE TO BE A PARTNER WITH THE MAYOR AND THE FIRE CHIEF, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ENSURE THAT THE COUNCIL IS PREPARED TO
DO ANYTHING TO HELP SUPPORT MAYOR BRANDON SCOTT IN THIS.
>> THEY WERE STILL TETHERED TO THE WIRES ON THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING OFF THE ROOF.
OUR UNITS ARRIVED IN OUR MEMBERS MADE A DECISION TO ACTUALLY BRING THEM INSIDE THE BUILDING I BELIEVE THROUGH THE 10TH AND 11TH FLOOR.
ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS WERE ABLE TO PULL THROUGH PRETTY EASILY ON THE 10TH FLOOR AND THE OTHER ONE, ONE OF OUR MEMBERS HAD TO STEP OUT AND CLIMB UP THE SCAFFOLD AND BRING HIM THROUGH
THE 11TH FLOOR AND THEY CUT THROUGH THE WINDOW ON THE 11TH FLOOR AND BRING THEM THROUGH THEIR.
AT THIS TIME, THEY ARE IN PRETTY DECENT CONDITION.
WE DID HAVE TO CALL FOR INTERPRETERS BUT IT WASN’T JUST FOR THOSE TWO INDIVIDUALS.
IT WAS ACTUALLY FOR OTHER INDIVIDUALS AS WELL.
>> [INDISCERNIBLE] >> THERE WERE SEVERAL DIFFERENT CONTRACTORS, I DON’T KNOW THAT INFORMATION EXACTLY.
>> [INDISCERNIBLE] >> I THINK IT’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THIS IS WHY THE CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT IS READY TO HAVE INTERPRETERS READY BECAUSE WE KNOW THE DYNAMICS ACROSS THE
CITY.
>> [INDISCERNIBLE] >> IT WASN’T WHEN THEY FIRST GOT HERE, THEY SAW THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING AND THAT’S WHERE THEY BEGAN BUT OUR PEOPLE STARTED GOING THROUGH THE
BUILDING, SEARCHING FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO MAY HAVE NEEDED HELP OR NEEDED TO BE EVACUATED.
SOME SELF EVACUATED AND SOME THEY HAD TO HELP OUT AND THEY MADE TO THE ROOF OF THE BUILDING AND REALIZE THERE WAS A PARTIAL COLLAPSE ON THE ROOF OF THE BUILDING.
THE INCIDENT RAN FROM ABOUT THE 10TH FLOOR TO THE ROOF.
>> [INDISCERNIBLE] >> THE ROOF, THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE FLOOR, THAT’S WHERE THEY WERE EVACUATED FROM.
THE BUILDING WAS AFFECTED FROM THE 10TH FLOOR TO THE ROOF AND THERE WERE SEVERAL CONTRACTORS WORKING IN THE BUILDING.
>> [INDISCERNIBLE] >> I DO KNOW WE TRANSPORTED AND BLAIR YOU MAY HAVE TO CORRECT ME ON THIS, WE TRANSPORTED 10 OF THEM, NINE OF THE 10, WE TRANSPORTED MORE BUT NINE OF THE
10 WERE TRANSPORTED TO A MIDDLE GRADE LEVEL PRIORITY AND ONE WAS TRANSPORTED PRIOR TO THREE AND HAD BURNS ON HIM.
THE BURNS LOOK LIKE TO HIS ARM AND HIS CHEST AREA AND OTHER AREAS POSSIBLY.
>> [INDISCERNIBLE] >> THERE ARE TWO SCAFFOLDS.
THERE WAS ONE TOWARD THE NORTH, I THINK THE NORTHWEST END OF THE BUILDING -- THE NORTHEAST END OF THE BUILDING AND THAT ONE, NO ONE WAS ON THAT AT THE TIME.
>> WE WILL TAKE TWO MORE QUESTIONS.
>> THE OTHER SCAFFOLD WAS THE SHORTEST SCAFFOLD, THE ONE AROUND THE 10TH OR 11TH FLOOR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUILDING.
THAT IS THE ONE THAT HAD TWO PEOPLE ON IT AND THE OTHER ONE HAD NO ONE ON IT.
>> [INDISCERNIBLE] >> YES.
>> HOLD FOR ONE SECOND.
>> [INDISCERNIBLE] IS THE REMAINING SCAFFOLDING A CONCERN?