 Investigation and we will determine where it goes to see what actually occurred and and try to get that information in as timely as possible. We also thank obviously JPS and Harris. We thank MedStar for being a part of and helping us get our folks to the hospital as well as care flight. It was a coordinated effort. A couple of our folks were trapped in the in the truck. There were people who stopped Good Samaritans. We're trying to make we're trying to ascertain the details of where their involvement was during the course of that. And I don't have a whole lot more because that's still under under review and investigation to try to figure out what happened or you know and how they were involved. But I will tell you that the community the forward community has just been amazing. Everybody has rallied together. There have been offers that I just I can't even begin to express my gratitude and appreciation to such a wonderful community has reached out to the fire department and is offering every ever anything that we possibly could need. So with that I think I'll just stop and open it up to questions and see what I can answer for you. Can I let me start over here and I'll just go that way real quick. Yeah. Now that's a good question. So the it was a it was a fire engine company wasn't a ladder truck. It was an engine company. That engines primary job is to find the fire and put water on it to put it out. That truck has hose to do that. And it also has water in a tank inside the truck that is you know adds weight and complexity to the vehicle. So it was a fire engine not a ladder truck. The all four folks that were injured obviously were in that truck. One was the operator of the vehicle has been discharged. One of the firefighters in the rear of the truck have been discharged to home and the officer of the truck and the other firefighter in the back are the ones that remain hospitalized. The officer in the truck was in the right front seat and was the most significantly injured. So I don't have Craig's working on getting all that for me as far as their tenure on the fire department. I can tell you they are all seasoned folks and they work in that neighborhood on that fire truck because they want to be in that neighborhood. They want to be in the community where the community's need is that's a very busy engine company. It's a very busy area of the city. They take a lot of runs. They provide a lot of assistance to the community. They see unfortunately they see a lot of fire in that community. They provide a lot of assistance to med star and they were on their ninth or tenth run of the day and that would have been their second working fire of the day. So they are a group of aggressive firefighters who love the job and are there because they want to be there. I think it speaks to exactly what I just said. These are all folks that it's my understanding that the officer just transferred from another area of the city to get back into that community to provide services to that community to be with that group of people that he was working with because the fire services of the family and fire stations are like homes. People live there for 24 hours at a time and so in order to work in busy areas of the city like that it takes a special person with a special mindset and with a can do attitude, a problem solving attitude and I think those are ways that I would describe all four people that worked overnight last night on that fire truck. Yes ma'am so I know it was not a new route however one of the things that I think it remains to be determined is there's construction in the area, there's some road changes, closures, bridge work, bridge maintenance. I have no idea I'm not speculating that that was part of it at all but to directly answer your question no that was an area that they were very familiar with and that they had they've worked in for quite a while. So let me start off with the last part of your comment about people pulling over. I have no indication and no speculation at all that somebody pulled out in front of them or that they were trying to avoid anybody. Yes we think we ask people we beg people when you see light sirens noise that you pull pull to the right and you try to get out of the way the best possible and that's really difficult in today's day and age for a lot of people you know cars remain to keep noise out keep sound out so the so the idea is we ask people to be mindful and pay attention when they're driving that directly answers that particular question as far as the rest of it and as far as the way the police are conducting their investigation I have nothing to add about speculation because that's all it would be at this point but I give chief notes the opportunity to talk just briefly with you about how the police conduct accident investigations because they're the subject matter experts and that's a chief if you don't mind. Thank you chief Davis. Before I address that question I do want to say that obviously our thoughts and our prayers are with the injured firefighters with chief Davis the entire department and with the loved ones of those that were injured and also for all first responders who responded to that incident anytime there is a significant accident like that there are significant injuries it's it's very impactful to those who respond regardless of who it is they'll all get the same level of professional service regardless of who may be involved but I have to say when it is someone you know when it's someone you work alongside you serve alongside someone whose job is to help others and now they find themselves in need of help that can be even more impactful to all the first responders who arrive on scene and some of those who responded were forward police department traffic investigations unit investigators I can tell you a little bit about that unit from a personal experience because I worked in that unit as a traffic investigator for a number of years our traffic investigations unit is comprised of highly trained highly skilled highly professional investigators who have very specific training dealing with accident investigations as all of you know we are very early in this investigation I don't have any specifics as to what may have caused this investigation but we're going to be looking at every factor we possibly can working with the fire department to make sure we gather all relevant evidence and information and we'll make sure we get some more information not to the fire department as we're able to make some determinations first thing I ask for thoughts and prayers for the fire department as far as the investigation anyone who may have seen anything it was very late at night or early in the morning so there may not have been many people out but we know we have many residents here and forward who have cameras around their house maybe a doorbell camera or something similar we ask that you check those cameras if you happen to have any footage either just prior to or maybe even they may have caught the accident itself please reach out to us we'd like to take a look at that to see if there's any evidentiary value the investigators will hopefully interview all four at some point but right now they have not been able to reach anyone because obviously their health and whatever medical needs they have are going to come first yes both here and in my previous employment in the city of Columbus where I came from unfortunately these kind of things happen I'm not just fine in any way what we end up doing is we to the chief's point we allow others to come in we have others that help us determine it's not just the police frequently it will be fleet mechanics that'll look at the vehicle to make sure that the vehicle is operating within the parameters it you know as far as the breaks and the transmission and things like that so I have nothing to offer you saying we think this or we think that but yes I've experienced it before and my goal from these previous experiences that I'm bringing here today is learning from others how to do two things one how to give the public the best confidence that we are going to take this seriously and get to the bottom of it and at the same time give the benefit of the doubt to the people that were involved that they were doing the best they could in the situation as it developed so I'd like to stand in front of you and say no right that it doesn't matter but I I think that that would be irresponsible I think that it's safe to say that different types of calls different things that you're hearing on your way to the call about people trapped or people in trouble you're trying to make sure that you understand and you're paying attention to where you're going there's a lot of things that can cause one call to the other to be a little bit more hyped for a lack of a better word however we teach to that and I think chief notes would agree with me that the first thing we teach our people is you can't do any good you can't help people if you don't get there right secondly is that these are big heavy trucks we put people through driver operator and pump operator classes we work to get them certified through the state to make sure that we are providing you know the best training the best education to teach folks that these vehicles don't handle the way our our cars at home do so those are all things that we put in place through our training academy with supportive city leadership and but the first and foremost responsibility of our folks is to get there because if we don't get there we we can't do any good so thanks for your question so they they were dispatched to a call just before 230 I want to say 229 at 234 they were involved in the accident so they were responding on emergency with their lights and siren on to an address for a residential house fire in the fire we we believe that there was one person who had minor injuries I were trying to under we're trying to get a determination on the extent of those injuries but we know that four adults and two children were displaced and we're working with the American Red Cross and other social service agencies to get them placement very much so yes ma'am so the city the city fire department will respond to somewhere between 300 and 400 requests for emergency assistance today and as we're taking care of our own and we're asking for thoughts and prayers there are 260 Fort Worth firefighters that remain on duty in support of the Fort Worth police in MedStar to go out and solve the community's problems on a day in and day out basis that's that's what we do and that mission is not stopped even though our hearts are heavy and our focus reflects an internal need to take care of ourselves and our own we're still out there responding to the public's needs and and I promise you that none of these four guys would want anything different than that ma'am yes ma'am so I have heard that as well and that that there was that the officer in the right front seat of the truck was ejected I have heard that we have not been able to confirm that there are competing storylines that are going about whether or not somebody stopped to a render assistance and pulled them out so I don't have an affirmative decision on that for you and hopefully with the assistance of the chief's accident investigation folks will be able to understand more whether or not he stayed in the vehicle or he he came out of the vehicle and that is under investigation I'm all right and I'll tell you why I'm all right because I'm surrounded by great people right I'm standing here with a group of people got some people in the back people up there the thing about it is this community expects a lot of the fire department the fire department expects a lot of me city expects a lot of me I have people that are colleagues and friends like this guy standing on my left I know that he's got my back I got his back if I need to talk if I need anything he's got me so does everybody else in this room and I can't I said it to kept mayor and council I want to apologize for it and I'll say it here in front of you part of the success of this is having a positive labor management relationship and for the firefighters local who is at the hospital right now and the police police officers association who has brought food to to my guys and my guys giving bringing food to the nurses and the hospital staff the physicians the ancillary support staff that just say that tells me that it's a family it's an environment we take care of each other and we solve people's problems so I appreciate you asking but it's bigger than me and I can only get through it with the support of everybody in this room so I appreciate you asking yes sir it's my understanding that that they they did transport one person thank you everyone appreciate it