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Thank you BurbankKarl for pointing to this article.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1440569/posts
"CA: Bomb Scare Shuts Down Two Subway Station"s
KABC News ^ | 7/11/05 | various
Posted on 07/11/2005 9:51:59 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LOS ANGELES (CNS) — With area mass transit systems on heightened terrorist alert following the London subway bombings, authorities took no chances when a suspicious object was found at a Metro Red Line station in Hollywood. The object, a cooler with wires sticking out of it, was found by a sheriff's deputy on patrol about 1:20 p.m. at the Metro Red Line station at Vermont Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. John Baylis.
"It was a small, Igloo type personal container with wires sticking out of it, colored wires, numerous wires," Baylis said. "They were consistent with the type used in blasting fuses."
Sheriff's deputies, firefighters and a bomb squad were called, and both the Vermont-Sunset and Vermont-Santa Monica subway stations were evacuated and nearby streets closed.
"We had about 120 to 150 people down there at the time because a train had just come in," Bill Heard of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. "We got everybody up to the surface in good order."
After the cooler was spotted by a deputy, it took well over an hour for the bomb squad to arrive at the subway station, Baylis said.
He said the bomb squad came from Whittier and was held up by traffic. Once the specialists were on scene, it took about 20 minutes for them to X- ray the cooler and determine it was empty, he said."
Gee, I'm glad they are really on top of things in LA. /sarc
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