Date: 2009-05-15 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rosiewoodboat.livejournal.com
And I'll add, the victim is deceased.

Date: 2009-05-15 04:04 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] 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.)
Edited Date: 2009-05-15 04:05 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-05-15 04:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chenoameg.livejournal.com
But how else would we know it was an emergency?

Date: 2009-05-15 04:18 pm (UTC)
spatch: (Howard Beale)
From: [personal profile] spatch
I really do think they're waiting to get shots of the stretcher.

They're vultures.

Date: 2009-05-15 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2009-05-15 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ron_newman
Footage of what, though? Do they have x-ray vision?

Date: 2009-05-15 05:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2009-05-15 05:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2009-05-15 06:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] m-b-w.livejournal.com
Ground crew was there too - at least one WBZ truck

Date: 2009-05-15 06:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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

Date: 2009-05-15 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2009-05-15 07:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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?

Date: 2009-05-16 01:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2009-05-15 04:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rosiewoodboat.livejournal.com
http://twitter.com/wbz

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