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Breaking-Beaumont Postal Center Evacuated - Possible Anthrax
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:05 am
by southerngale
Breaking news in Beaumont tonight as hundreds of employees have been evacuated from the Postal Encoding Center at Pearl and Orleans.
A suspicious white powdery substance was found in the men's bathroom. Also, there was some kind of note left saying it was Anthrax and people would be hurt. People from the post office started calling sometime around 9:30pm tonight and HAZMAT teams are there now.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:10 am
by Guest
Keep us informed, Southerngal. I know it sounds elementary, but there are only two outcomes to this: it is either a hoax (the note) or a teorrorist attack.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:17 am
by Lindaloo
Good grief. Keep us posted SG!!
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:40 am
by southerngale
It looks like it was found at 10:10pm, about an hour and a half ago. Hopefully it's just a hoax, but they sure have downtown Beaumont stirred up tonight. They have a perimeter set up around the building and they're going to have a field test done to see what it is.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:17 am
by Suzi Q
Update-
NOT anthrax according to news this morning. Of course, they aren't saying exactly what it IS!!!!
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 7:10 am
by AussieMark
southerngale wrote:It looks like it was found at 10:10pm, about an hour and a half ago. Hopefully it's just a hoax, but they sure have downtown Beaumont stirred up tonight. They have a perimeter set up around the building and they're going to have a field test done to see what it is.
Now Kelly I thought u were beyond making Hoaxes or pranks.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:00 am
by j
tropicalweatherwatcher wrote:Now Kelly I thought u were beyond making Hoaxes or pranks.
hmmmm...not funny tropicalweatherwatcher. I think SG was posting about a serious incident.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 11:19 am
by CaptinCrunch
probley someones cocain
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 11:31 am
by southerngale
Thanks for the update while I was still snoozing Suzi Q.
Mark, J is right, everything is not a joke. You need to learn when to zip it up.
Breaking New: Field Tests Come Back Negative on White Powder Found in U.S. Postal Service Remote Encoding Center; Employees Allowed to Return to Work
A Beaumont Police Department dispatcher tells Channel 6 News, a second field test shows an unidentified white substance found inside the U.S. Postal Service Remote Encoding Center at Pearl and Orleans in downtown Beaumont is not a hazardous material.
The Beaumont Fire Department evacuated the building earlier tonight after finding the substance.
Just before 1:15 a.m., officials began to let employees back into the building.
Although the substance tested negative for a hazardous material, investigators haven't yet determined exactly what it is.
Hundreds of employees spent nearly 3 hours standing outside of the building.
Beaumont police and hazardous materials teams assisted the fire department with the evacuation.
In a live news cut-in at 10:45 p.m. on KFDM, Beaumont Police Sgt. R.J. Smith told reporter Kathleen Mitchell someone found a white substance on the floor of the men's room at about 10:10 p.m. Thursday night, with a piece of paper over the powder and the word 'anthrax' written on it.
Again, all of the workers who were evacuated and the employees who arrived to work their night shift only to stand outside, have now been allowed into the building.
The F.B.I. is investigating to find out who placed the substance in the building.
That person could face federal charges.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:11 pm
by hunter84
Glad to hear it was just a hoax. Hope they catch the idiot that put it there.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:20 pm
by wx247
Yeah... I am glad everything turned out okay as well.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:25 pm
by Josephine96
I was getting a bit nervous reading these.. I thought the Anthrax attacks were on again. Glad to hear it was just a hoax though