To: lizm_77
White Powder Scare In Downtown Seattle
POSTED: 12:10 p.m. PST March 19, 2003
UPDATED: 1:16 p.m. PST March 19, 2003
SEATTLE -- A hazardous material scare in downtown Seattle is over.
Fire department spokeswoman Sue Stangl says a suspicious powder is not hazardous.
Police spokesman Scott Moss says an officer saw a man sprinkling orange dust as he crossed Fourth Avenue.
Police arrested the man and called in the fire department HazMat team before noon.
Downtown streets near Fourth and Pike were closed for about an hour while the team investigated.
On Monday, police and firefighters responded to reports of an unidentified white powder at seven different locations around the city -- six of them in West Seattle -- causing the evacuation of dozens from a post office at one site.
All of the instances on Monday were determined to be hoaxes or false Alarms, fire officials said.
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3 posted on
03/19/2003 1:28:13 PM PST by
Hanging Chad
(not to be confused with "Hanging Ten" or "Hanging Wallpaper"...)
To: Hanging Chad
On Monday, police and firefighters responded to reports of an unidentified white powder at seven different locations around the city Unidenitifed? Has anyone tried the snorting test?
To: Hanging Chad
Ummm...Chad?
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03/19/2003 2:56:39 PM PST by
Eala
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