Military first on scene of deadling Amrak train wreck

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The scene that met Lt. Col. Christopher Sloan inside a derailed train car Monday morning was unlike anything he had seen in a war zone.

"The seats were everywhere, there was luggage everywhere. It was chaos," Sloan said.

Injured victims were trapped under wreckage. Others, in a daze, were looking for lost cellphones and luggage.

Though the circumstances were new for Sloan, his military training wasn't. And it kicked in.

"They needed help, and they needed to be cared for," the Joint Base Lewis-McChord solider said Tuesday.