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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Asiana Flight 214 First Responders Speak [Watch (HLS stream): Asiana Flight 214 First Responders Speak](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Bk8dFAtI.m3u8) (1:41)  _Published 2013-07-08. The first responders who helped evacuate the plane talk about their experience trying to save passengers' lives._ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:38 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Animation of Asiana Flight 214 accident sequence](/video/epkfAEjJ/) ### Animation of Asiana Flight 214 accident sequence [Heroes of Asiana Flight 214](/video/ojj9yZ3N/) ### Heroes of Asiana Flight 214 [NTSB Asiana Flight 214 Press Conference](/video/Ecfcaals/) ### NTSB Asiana Flight 214 Press Conference --- ## Transcript Ya now, we train for this as first responders all the time. What we saw yesterday most people would never see in their career. It was something that we trained for but we, we have not encountered. And it was a very sophisticated team, teamwork, effort of teamwork. As my initial report was to the communication center. I have a large plane down. It's well involved in fire. And people are exiting the plane, and the casualty collection point has been established. At that point, I raise it to a third alarm, and declared a red alert. And a red alert is, we do have victims. And the hospitals need to be notified at a higher level. Requested our multi casualty unit and our mass casualty units form the city. The communications from the tower was alert three, alert three, plane crash, plane crash. It was a female that dispatched us. And I knew, from her voice that the event we were going through was real. One lady, who had fractures in her leg, could move, and I think they put her on a back board. If I'm not mistaken. And then pretty much, that was it. Then, we just had the one gentleman that was left up, up further, left further in the back, maybe seven, eight rows up. And, he was groaning. We were running out of time. The smoke started to get thicker and thicker. So we had no choice. We just we stood him up. And amazingly, he started shuffling his feet. So, that was a good sign. We got to the rear of the [ INAUDIBLE ] aircraft again, and we were able to, get him out. 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