Posts Tagged ‘lockdown’
Dugway Base for chemical/biological weapons on lockdown
Skull Valley sheep kill 1968
A Utah military facility that tests chemical and biological weapons was locked down “to resolve a serious concern,” and authorities were working to reopen the base, officials said Thursday. All base personnel were safe and working, and no evacuation was needed, said spokeswoman, Bonnie Robinson. She would not say why the base was locked down…
About 1,500 employees and contractors are stationed at the base.
Dugway commander Col. William E. King IV said earlier authorities were “working as quickly and as thoroughly as possible to resolve a serious concern within the Test Area” but he didn’t elaborate.
“As you know measures like these (lockdown of our gates) are not taken lightly. No one is in immediate danger but these steps are required.”
The proving ground covers 798,214 acres and is located in the Great Salt Lake Desert, around 85 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.
Also a historic center for the development and testing of chemical and biological weapons.
Watch the movie “Rage” sometime – starring George C. Scott. Based on events in the good old Cold Warrior days when a release of one of our All-American weapons of mass destruction killed thousands of sheep.
Dugway has been a test site for weaponized anthrax as recently as 1998.
Urban legend + txt msg = elementary school lockdown
A cell phone text message accidentally forwarded to a south-side Santa Fe elementary school caused officials to shut down the school and sent some parents into a panic for a couple hours Friday morning.
An employee at César Chávez Community School…at 8:06 a.m. found a phone message in Spanish that led authorities to believe somebody might be threatening to kill people inside.
Police were immediately contacted, and they put the school on lockdown — nobody goes in, nobody leaves — for a couple hours and beefed up patrols at surrounding schools as a precaution.
However, police later learned the message — a bogus warning about possible gang violence that has been widely circulated via telecommunications devices — wasn’t meant for the school and wasn’t directed at anyone there…
Pop goes the squirrel. School goes into lockdown. But better-safe-than-sorry… right?
Whew! It could have turned out to be something like this.
Police in Ohio said a high school was locked down for about a half hour due to the sound that resulted when a squirrel caused a transformer malfunction.
Columbus police said Brookhaven High School was locked down shortly after 8 a.m. Monday following the gunshot-like sound but the lockdown was lifted shortly after 8:30 a.m., when investigators discovered the sound was caused by the squirrel, WCMH-TV, Columbus, Ohio, reported Tuesday.
I’d hate to think what happens when some dizzy blond pops her bubble gum in class.
Mystery man strolls down the wrong hallway at Newark Airport – terminal closed, flights halted, in security lockdown – UPDATED
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Frustrated travelers were delayed for hours Sunday night when officials shut down a terminal at Newark Airport after a man walked into a secure area without authorization.
Dozens of flights were grounded, and thousands of passengers waited late into the night to be rescreened at Terminal C .
Homeland Security Department spokeswoman Sari Koshetz said a man was seen walking down a security checkpoint exit lane into the secure area about 5:30 p.m.
Screening was halted in the terminal while authorities looked at surveillance tapes to identify the man, who had not been found.
“If they find the person who did this, he’s going to be in big trouble,” said traveler John Davis.
Passengers in the Continental Airlines terminal were evacuated from the terminal and moved to the open side of the airport to go through screening again.
Texas prisons locked down after cell phone threats
Wireless neighborhood
The death row inmate who ignited a growing scandal on prison contraband after he was caught talking on a smuggled cell phone was transferred Wednesday to a prison psychiatric unit after guards discovered a 3-foot strip of sheet tied to a fixture in his cell.
Richard Tabler was restrained and taken in for evaluation after guards also noticed red marks on his neck. No serious injuries were noted. Tabler was later transferred to Jester IV in Richmond from the Livingston prison. “We don’t know if he was going to make a noose. It’s a precaution,” prison spokesman Jason Clark said of Tabler.
Tabler’s threatening calls from a smuggled cell phone to state Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, and a reporter prompted the governor this week to order a systemwide lockdown so guards could sweep all 112 prisons for contraband.
The massive search through Texas prisons has turned up 13 more smuggled cell phones and 12 more cell phone chargers in the past 24 hours, including another phone and charger found on death row, Clark said.
The cell phone and charger discovered on death row were found above the ceiling in the men’s shower area. That brings the number of cell phones found since Monday on Texas’ death row to four.
The prison system remains locked down, with inmates assigned to their cells as correctional officers sweep all prison units for contraband, a process that could take three weeks.
No employees have been arrested in connection with any of the smuggled cell phones found this week.
i guess the cell phones teleported into the prisons, eh?
What crap. Contraband gets into prisons one way. It gets walked in by someone. It may be kin waltzing past sleazy, incompetent, corrupt guards – or the corrupt guards earn side money by acting as delivery boys.
