The most moving, touching, yet disturbing story:

His bleeding body trapped under debris after a train wreck last week, John Phipps scrawled a message to his wife and children in his own blood on an upended seat: "I (heart) my kids. I (heart) Leslie."

Phipps said he was called to work early that day at an aerospace plant in Burbank, so he went in on a train he normally wouldn't take. He sat upstairs in the double-deck train, went to sleep and remembers waking up and feeling mist falling on his face.

He saw broken bits of train and knew something was wrong. When he touched the back of his head, his hands were covered with blood. He tried to lift his head but couldn't. His whole body was trapped under debris. Reaching out, he felt a chair and saw his bloody handprint. That was when he decided to write his message.

"I don't know why I did it. I didn't think they would see it," said Phipps. Firefighters say it was easy to understand why Phipps thought he was going to die. Capt. Robert Rosario, the first to reach Phipps and the message, said Phipps was bleeding from below the waist and complained of pain in his legs, back and ribs.

"I've seen some gruesome things on this job," said Rosario, who called Phipps lucky considering two of the people who died were only feet from him. "But that moved me. My only thoughts at that point was I have to get this seat to his wife and kids."