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jill jenkins was a triage nurse. she was one of the first ones to arrive on the scene. here's what she had to say. >> when i got on the scene it was approximately two minutes after the explosion. it actually looked like 9/11, what you saw on tv with 9/11. there were people laying in their yards that had been blown out of their homes. the nursing home looked like it had just been blown kind of out. the west apartments, the structure was there but apartments were just blown out. people were coming out bloody and injured. >> officials say dozens of homes have been flattened along with businesses in that part of town. the school caught on fire. a nursing home was damaged, and an apartment complex was flattened. they are still searching door by door and lot by lot trying to find survivors, and we're told that 160 people have been injured. the fatality count is now somewhere between 5 and 15, and among dead are 3 to 4 fire fighters, and a law enforcement officer slashed a fire fighter who was reported missing has been found alive but in serious condition at an area hospital.

i want to bring in jill jenkins.rse, one who responded right away, she is also a resident of the community that has been so, so hard hit. and i guess the first thing is to ask, how are you doing? >> i'm good. i'm tired, but i'm good. >> it was a fire and that's what drew a lot of people out to sort of see what was burning, right? and that's what brought you in? >> a big fire, that's all we knew. >> reporter: tell us how it went from there? >> we drove to see the fire and right when we turned the corner, about four or five blocks i guess, the explosion occurred. >> reporter: how bad? >> it was bad. it was very loud. like a bomb went off, and you still weren't really sure what exactly it was. >> reporter: most people go away, but you went toward the area. >> we went around, we started seeing people with injuries and things like that. so the closer we drove to, you know, kind of the -- >> we're having some technical issues in west, texas. as martin said, heavy weather right now, could screw up our satellite signal right

my name is jill jenkins, and we saw the fire and so we kind of drove over there to see what it was and. >> it lifted your car off the ground? >> kind of lifted it up, like it was like a bomb. >> what on earth goes through your mind when that happens? >> i had no idea what it was. i still didn't know what it was until we turnedded corner and got by the nursing home and the apartments and saw it was like 9-11. >> we're certainly happy you and your family are okay and no doubt the thoughts and prayers from all of america go out to the people living in this community. thank you very much for your time this morning. we're going to hear a lot of stories like that panning out over the next couple of hours, days, even weeks. just incredible news. a major catastrophe unfolding here in central texas this morning. >> steve: all right. thank you. real quickly, it sounded like you said it leveled an area five miles wide. did you mean five miles or five blocks? >> five miles is what the mayor had said. again, we're going to have to wait until it rain subsides so we can get the news helicopters up an