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White House on lockdown after loud bang: pool report
Reuters ^ | March 7, 2015

Posted on 03/07/2015 8:25:09 AM PST by don-o

(Reuters) - The White House was put on lockdown on Saturday after a loud noise was heard on the South Lawn moments before President Barack Obama and his family were due to take off by helicopter, a White House pool report said on Saturday.

It said the noise prompted Secret Service agents to move the press back into the briefing room, lock the doors and put the building on lockdown.

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Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary says a vendor cart caught fire around 10 a.m. at 15th and G streets. Firefighters responded and contained the blaze. D.C. Fire and EMS says one patient was evaluated but wasn't taken to a hospital.

"I'll give ya cash for a spankin' new cart, darlin'"


41 posted on 03/07/2015 12:29:17 PM PST by COBOL2Java ("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
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