rig, driven by firefighter Jimmy Yee, approaching the scene within minutes after the 11:27 a.m. crash, black smoke curling above the wrecked airliner. The rig was forced to stop repeatedly to allow passengers to flee the area.

About five minutes after arriving, the rig was positioned at the front of the left wing, where Ye was on the ground.

At 11:36 a.m., the dashboard camera's footage showed a man identified by investigators as firefighter Roger Phillips waving his arms to direct Yee around the girl. The rig waited for a moment to allow another firefighter to walk between the vehicle and the girl. That firefighter didn't pause or look at Ye and continued toward the plane.

Looked dead

Phillips later told investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board that the girl wasin the fetal position, her eyes rolled up, her face waxen and wearing a grimace.

He described her as resembling a CPR training mannequin and said she appeared to be dead. Yee has told Fire Department investigators that as he drove by, he saw what he took to be a dead victim.

Phillips said he told a higher-ranking firefighter, Lt. Christine Emmons, about the girl and that she replied: "Yes, yes, OK, OK. We've gotta get a line inside," referring to the need to get a hose into the burning craft as part of an effort to rescue victims.

'3-second' check

Emmons told the federal investigators she had done a "three-second" visual assessment of the girl and considered her to be "our first casualty."

She said she had tried to make sure that