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## Video: 911 Calls from Asiana Flight 214

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_Published 2013-07-11. Calls from the crash site describe burn victims laying on the tarmac and the need for more emergency responders._


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## Transcript

We just crash landed on the airline, and it looks like it's on the south coming but not too many ambulances Yes, we know, we do have the ambulances and the fire department on the way. Okay. Can you tell me are there people that are trapped on the plane? I know some people have gotten off already. I got, I think the majority of people got off. I tried to stay back but I think there were at least a handful of people behind me before everyone was telling us to get out. Ambulance emergency number 112, what's the location of the emergency? 112 We're at the San Francisco International Airport. We just got in a plane crash, and there are a bunch of people who still need help and there's not enough medics out here that can help.

There is a woman out here on the street, on the, on the runway who is pretty much burned very severely on the head, and we don't know what to do. Okay. We do have help started that way. You said that they're there, but there's not enough people, correct? Yes, she's severely burned, and she really needs help. And I don't even know what to do. How do I, is there any way that we could assist her in any way? I'm gonna ask you some questions, and see if I can give you some instructions, okay? Okay. Just hold the line. Okay. Okay, okay. Hi, we are at the San Francisco International Airport and we just got in a plane crash and there are a lot of people that need help.

Yeah there should be a. So if there's any way the ambulance can be sent. Are you, are you with a lot of the ambulances that are there? No, they are not. We have, we have people over here who weren't found, and they're burned really badly. Okay, where are you at? We're out on the outskirts. Yes I was on the plane. We got on the, we went on the ground, I don't know, 20 minutes or half hour. There are people laying on the tarmac with critical injuries, head injuries. We're almost losing one here. We're trying to keep her alive.

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