let's go to adam winkler with a cnn affiliate. earlier we heard a spokesperson from the police department compare the destruction to iraq war scenes. can you paint a picture for us? >> reporter: it's absolutely incredible. another word we've heard is tornadic. sergeant swanta of the waco police department was one of the first to arrive on the scene. he said the devastation is massive like a trrnld, tornado, f-4, f-5. we're on the southbound service road of interstate 35, about 50 miles north of waco, two miles north of austin. you can see the lights of the baseball field at west high school. that was a facility used as triage facility earlier in the night after the devastation. we tried to get as close to the scene as we could. law enforcement officials were relying on eyewitness accounts and what law officials are telling us, and like you said, scene like iraq, bolike a bomb went off, tornadic. >> i know that earlier there were reports that there were a lot of firefighters from other areas, emergency personnel that were going ove