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'Emergency situation' at Fort Benning close to resolution, officials say
FOX NEWS ^

Posted on 04/22/2015 10:40:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Authorities at Fort Benning, the U.S. Army post in west Georgia, say they're dealing with an ongoing "emergency situation" at the post's Warrior Transition Battalion.

Fort Benning officials said Wednesday afternoon on the base's official Facebook account and on Twitter that officials have secured the area and that personnel were safety evacuated as a precaution. Officials at the scene have determined that there is no longer a threat to anyone on base, according to a Facebook post.

Base officials said in the social media posts that children in a child development center were safe but were being moved to another site due the emergency.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: braking; jumpercables; ohnoes; omg; wut
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1 posted on 04/22/2015 10:40:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Wow. Nothing like too much information.


2 posted on 04/22/2015 10:45:07 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

I can’t find any info out there. Will keep looking.


3 posted on 04/22/2015 10:47:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: onedoug

The only way to make sense of this ‘report’ is to think about which details have been left out, then try to back engineer into reconstructing the actual event. There should be a fuller report later, after they’ve determined ‘absolutely no signs of terrorism here’.


4 posted on 04/22/2015 10:50:04 AM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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To: RoosterRedux

Please do! ISIS is targeting our bases and our soldiers can’t carry weapons.


5 posted on 04/22/2015 10:50:04 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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It appears that some ebola rumors were circulating around Columbus today. That may be what started this kerfuffle.


6 posted on 04/22/2015 10:50:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: RoosterRedux

This may be nothing, but why would anyone expect the government/media to be forthcoming with the information if it were an attack of some kind, especially one that resulted from our border security non-policies.


7 posted on 04/22/2015 10:52:03 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: RoosterRedux
Curious update at source:
UPDATE: The emergency situation at the Fort Benning WTB is close to a resolution. The details of the situation are as follows: A Soldier who asked for help with a battery jump, mis-identified part of the electrical system within the assisting person's vehicle.

Due to the Soldier's concern for the safety of personnel in the area, he alerted emergency officials to what he felt to be a threat. Officials on scene have determined the situation is not a threat to personnel in the area and are completing their final checks. We will let you know when the area is officially cleared.


8 posted on 04/22/2015 10:53:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: RoosterRedux

Did someone get the wires crossed when they jumpered the battery?!?


9 posted on 04/22/2015 10:56:44 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: RoosterRedux

Crossed his jumper cables? Melted down a Prius? Nobody’s gonna confess to that.


10 posted on 04/22/2015 10:57:55 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: RoosterRedux

So, some kid got the polarity backwards while hooking up two high amperage 12v batteries and blew one of them up. Hope he wasn’t too near it.


11 posted on 04/22/2015 10:58:51 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("It is never untimely to yank the rope of freedom's bell." - - Frank Capra)
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m thinking that causing an “emergency situation” at the home of the Infantry training / Airborne school / Ranger training school .... might be a bad idea.


12 posted on 04/22/2015 11:02:10 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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Not when all the ordinance is under lock and key except on range day.


13 posted on 04/22/2015 11:03:19 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: RoosterRedux

Maybe there was a rumor that Hillary was planning to visit.


14 posted on 04/22/2015 11:09:28 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: onedoug
Wow. Nothing like too much information.

You're right - the Fox News story was nothing like too much information.

15 posted on 04/22/2015 11:17:25 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Maybe there was a rumor that Hillary was planning to visit.

If the rumored visit was preceded by her eating at a Chipotle's, I can see how that could create an "emergency situation" for the base.


16 posted on 04/22/2015 11:21:38 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Hmmm... Is it red to red or red to black?
Let’s see which one works!


17 posted on 04/22/2015 11:23:38 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Squantos

So much for his career in EOD.


18 posted on 04/22/2015 11:23:52 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: RoosterRedux

Emergency? They out of nail polish that matches red patent leather pumps?


19 posted on 04/22/2015 11:26:03 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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Red nail polish is soooo yesterday.

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20 posted on 04/22/2015 11:27:34 AM PDT by Mears (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."Voltaire))
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