chloe
09-16-2011, 06:21 PM
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Traffic into and out of the base was being limited because of an unspecified security situation, but no one was shot or hurt, according to the public affairs office at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Schools at the base were locked down and parents waited for information about when they could pick up their children.
The lockdown was prompted by reports of someone with something that looked like a weapon, said Tech Sgt. Russ Martin said earlier. Base officials would not confirm reports of a man holed up with a gun.
"So the base is going into crisis action mode. We're just locking down the base for the safety and security of the people on Davis-Monthan," he said.
The Tucson police department says its SWAT team, hostage negotiations unit and bomb squad are on stand-by to help out if necessary. An FBI spokesman says investigators are on at the base on the edge of the southern Arizona city where earlier this year a gunman gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six people.
Ambulances were sent to the base, sparking fears of injuries, but it was just a case of bad timing, Martin said.
"Any ambulance you saw leaving earlier, not too long ago, was actually a woman going into labor," he said.
As the lockdown unfolded Friday, Senior Airman Timothy Dunaway said traffic was reduced to a single point entry; vehicles lined up at the base's main gate and were being turned around.
Alison Bunnell, who lives at the base with her husband and their four children, was turned away when she tried to return to the base after having left it.
Bunnell said she was told that children at the base's schools were oblivious to what was going and were watching movies and eating snacks. She said she wasn't worried. "We have exercises all the time," Bunnell said.
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=157&sid=17272324
Boy these military bases are getting less and less safe place to be.....
Traffic into and out of the base was being limited because of an unspecified security situation, but no one was shot or hurt, according to the public affairs office at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Schools at the base were locked down and parents waited for information about when they could pick up their children.
The lockdown was prompted by reports of someone with something that looked like a weapon, said Tech Sgt. Russ Martin said earlier. Base officials would not confirm reports of a man holed up with a gun.
"So the base is going into crisis action mode. We're just locking down the base for the safety and security of the people on Davis-Monthan," he said.
The Tucson police department says its SWAT team, hostage negotiations unit and bomb squad are on stand-by to help out if necessary. An FBI spokesman says investigators are on at the base on the edge of the southern Arizona city where earlier this year a gunman gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six people.
Ambulances were sent to the base, sparking fears of injuries, but it was just a case of bad timing, Martin said.
"Any ambulance you saw leaving earlier, not too long ago, was actually a woman going into labor," he said.
As the lockdown unfolded Friday, Senior Airman Timothy Dunaway said traffic was reduced to a single point entry; vehicles lined up at the base's main gate and were being turned around.
Alison Bunnell, who lives at the base with her husband and their four children, was turned away when she tried to return to the base after having left it.
Bunnell said she was told that children at the base's schools were oblivious to what was going and were watching movies and eating snacks. She said she wasn't worried. "We have exercises all the time," Bunnell said.
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=157&sid=17272324
Boy these military bases are getting less and less safe place to be.....