Get off the babysitter! Put on your pants, and come out with your hands up!

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

My house is surrounded by circling helicopters this morning.

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[rosiewoodboat.livejournal.com]

http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/breaking/x1549041284/Report-Person-trapped-by-Red-Line-train

[ron_newman]

Yikes! Not sure what good a helicopter will do in that situation, though. No place to land it, and an ambulance could get the victim to Mount Auburn or MGH quickly.

[rosiewoodboat.livejournal.com]

They are news helicopters, channel 4, and channel 5.

[spatch]

Awesome! I hope they're getting great shots of the underground train station while they burn fuel waiting to see someone get taken out on a stretcher.

[rosiewoodboat.livejournal.com]

And I'll add, the victim is deceased.

[ron_newman]

I'm very sorry to read this. Any idea how this happened?

(And still ... news helicopters to cover a fatal accident several hundred feet underground? Does. Not. Make. Sense.)

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

But how else would we know it was an emergency?

[spatch]

I really do think they're waiting to get shots of the stretcher.

They're vultures.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Less morbidly, they wanted to have footage for the noon news, which they could get in time with a helicopter, but maybe not by sending a ground crew.

[ron_newman]

Footage of what, though? Do they have x-ray vision?

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Unless emergency personnel these days have teleporters we don't know about, there will be a massive emergency logistics caravan above ground.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

No teleporters - I just biked through Porter and there's crazy traffic, the Red Line maintenance truck, multiple other T vehicles, it's a madhouse. I'm sure it looked great from above.

[m-b-w.livejournal.com]

Ground crew was there too - at least one WBZ truck

[m-b-w.livejournal.com]

www.wbztv.com has a video from their helicopter, in case anybody needs to see the buses that are replacing subway service

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

> news helicopters to cover a fatal accident several hundred feet underground?

Well, the news helicopters are usually buzzing around anyway during certain hours, looking at traffic or lining up live shots.

It's likely they were coming from some other assignment, or on their way to get something else for the noon news, when the incident at Porter happened.

[m-b-w.livejournal.com]

From WBZ Twitter a few hours ago: "Chopper is now live over Porter Square station on http://wbztv.com. Unfortunately, not a lot to see from outside." Would they have been happier if they could have seen the deceased person?

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Well, they didn't know someone was deceased yet. They might have been expecting an accident on the commuter rail side which of course would be visible.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

oof. that sux. what's your source on this?

[rosiewoodboat.livejournal.com]

http://twitter.com/wbz

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Is the Red line running into the city from Porter normally?

[ron_newman]

No, all trains are terminating at Harvard, according to the MBTA alert page.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I failed my reading comprehension the first time I read the alert.

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

FYI, looks like the train is running, at least the Alert is no longer up on the MBTA site. Hopefully everyone can get home without much trouble.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

No, it could be relevant. That may explain why the helos were (already?) out this morning. People were doubting they would come out solely for a subway accident deep underground.