CBS News: Amtrak Derailment Outside Philly Kills Five

Fmr. Congressman Patrick Murphy: ‘We leave no one behind; I wasn’t going to climb out when there was people that were still hurt’

DUNCAN (voice-over): “Former Congressman Patrick Murphy was on board when the train derailed. Murphy, an Iraq vet, wasn’t injured, so he started helping those around him who were."
MURPHY: “I just stayed back and just told the people who were bleeding to put some pressure on their wounds where they were bleeding from because you don’t want to see those people bleed out.” 
DUNCAN (voice-over): “People crawled, stumbled and were carried out of the wreckage.”
J. HELFMAN (train passenger): “He got me out of the train, the train was filled with smoke, but he said, ‘Mom, I have to go back and get everyone else out.’” 
DUNCAN (on screen): “You went back into this dark train to help the people that you could. Why did you do it?”
M. HELFMAN (train passenger): “I was in a position where I could help them, so I don’t know, instinctively, that’s what I did.” 
DUNCAN (voice-over): “Many victims were covered in blood but walking. The more seriously injured were treated right there at the scene. More than 100 victims were transported to at least five area hospitals. Teams of doctors and nurses were waiting.”
DANOFF: “There were some internal injuries where people were bleeding internally, where they were losing their blood pressure and that was from compression injuries, where they were, you know, hit suddenly. It was usually in the first or second car. The third and fourth car had some significant injuries also.” 
DUNCAN (on screen): “Did that training that you talk about in Iraq, come through in that moment when you didn’t want to leave anyone?”
MURPHY: “We have an ethic in the military, you know, we leave no one behind and I wasn’t going to climb out when there were people still hurting.”
 

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