Emergency and rescue services rushed to the scene. But our reporter says it will take days to clear the track and to establish the numbers of the dead and injured.
Farmers have been using drones to make sure their crops are healthy and emergency crews use them in Puerto Rico and Nepal after natural disasters struck.
Outside Pittsburgh, rescue crews pulling 41 passengers trapped in floodwaters on a school bus Wednesday morning, and in New York and New Jersey first responders working around the clock rescuing people stranded in their cars.
Firefighters say it's been a traumatic, exhausting and anxious bushfire season so far, but that the containment of the blazes will allow emergency workers to now focus on helping people rebuild.
More than 400 emergency workers including firefighters, police officers and medical technicians gave their lives trying to rescue people in the doomed World Trade Center towers.
Rescue workers in Brazil are trying to find people still buried in the ruins of a 7-storey residential building which collapsed in the northeastern city Fortaleza. 9 have been rescued so far.
So first responders could be called on to both rescue people and help protect them from coronavirus which will be a concern especially in crowded evacuation centers.
Emergency workers among them, the Indian air force, and the national disaster response force must navigate the washed out roads to deliver supplies, a hand -- any help they can give.