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Just heard a brief on the Washington Warning System (WAWAS) that CG HQs is currently sheltering in place from a bomb threat.
Apparently they arrested someone at the scene. This makes the first time I have heard HQs have any sort of issue like that. One of the perks of being located away from the National Mall I guess.
T - location helps but not there...never felt safe; but what do you expect when the Metro PD Auto Theft Squad permanently stakes out Coasties parked cars on 1st and 2nd Sts!
Was it the hotdog vendor? He had a perfect spot on the NW corner of the building!
Maybe it was a disgruntled Coastie with orders there...
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Originally posted by militia1: Just heard a brief on the Washington Warning System (WAWAS) that CG HQs is currently sheltering in place from a bomb threat.
Apparently they arrested someone at the scene. This makes the first time I have heard HQs have any sort of issue like that. One of the perks of being located away from the National Mall I guess.
I seem to remember there was a bomb threat a while back. It was almost lunch time. Instead of creating a panic, they evacuated the senior officers and quietly went about searching for a bomb. It turned out to be false.
The HQ building will be more visible now that Nationals Park is just a couple blocks away. That area has slowly become some VERY expensive real estate.
Ya I heard that A lady dropped off her briefcase and said something like there was bomb in it and she was arrested..not exact but that was the jist I got. Scary.
Last time I was in that area that is exactly what that building needed....... Of course the Commandant had those stationed at HQ help clean up the local slums...
I was there during the bomb threat when they evacuated the senior staff while the rest of Hq simply evacuated the building like a fire escape drill. I had the pleasure of being a fire warden and being there when the local bomb squad brought the dogs in. The dogs and bomb squad were awesome. Very professional crew responded. After the fact, the senior staff (including the Commandant) looked pretty silly as they were whisked away from the building as everyone else at HQ remained at ground zero for nothing to happen thank goodness!!
Originally posted by Nobodyaskedmebut: T - location helps but not there...never felt safe; but what do you expect when the Metro PD Auto Theft Squad permanently stakes out Coasties parked cars on 1st and 2nd Sts!
Was it the hotdog vendor? He had a perfect spot on the NW corner of the building!
Funny you mention this, I was at a Council of Governments meeting in DC yesterday and ate one of those for the first time in my life. After hearing how great they were, I kind of felt it tasted like a uhhhh, hotdog.
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Ya I heard that A lady dropped off her briefcase and said something like there was bomb in it and she was arrested..not exact but that was the jist I got. Scary.
YNGRL
Yep, sounds about right. You dont by chance know the little lady that was briefing the circuit on WAWAS from the ops center do you? She did a great job, but you might want to mention that there are roughly 150 agencies monitoring that line, and she was speaking very fast. Sounded like she had some adrenaline pumping when she called the FBI WFO.
The disgruntled Coastie with orders??? I like that.
Hey, anyone know what happened to HQs moving to St Elizabeths????
Militia, No I dont know who the girl was, I have a YN friend there and she told me about it she says "DONT EVER COME HERE!" lol. She got stuck in traffic there recently for nearly 8 hours from snow! She says no one knows how to drive in snow there.
Originally posted by YNGRL: Militia, No I dont know who the girl was, I have a YN friend there and she told me about it she says "DONT EVER COME HERE!" lol. She got stuck in traffic there recently for nearly 8 hours from snow! She says no one knows how to drive in snow there.
Interesting, try working on an evacuation plan for 2 years to address a mass evacuation of DC only to have the Washington Post rip it to shreds.
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Backed by a $1.4 million federal grant, officials intended to create a unified evacuation plan in case of a terrorist strike or other disaster. But they scaled it back to a guide for governments in the Washington area, with a database of highways, shelters, buses and other resources.
Some analysts said the document reflects a worrisome lack of coordination in one of the world's prime terror targets. But others said the original goal was too ambitious, given the absence of detailed local plans and the region's division of authority.
"What we decided was: You can't have one operational plan across state, commonwealth and District for evacuation," said Chris Geldart, the representative for the D.C. area at the Department of Homeland Security. "But what you can do is understand what is everybody's plan and how they fit together."
He called the guide a significant advance and said it would provide the building blocks for a more integrated regional plan.
The project made clear the patchwork nature of planning for a catastrophe in the area, according to a final draft obtained by The Washington Post. Some major thoroughfares out of the District narrow into smaller roads in Maryland, where they are not considered evacuation routes. The database includes more than 80 large evacuation shelters in the District and Maryland but none in Virginia, where officials are still compiling that information. And, unlike most jurisdictions, Prince George's County is not contemplating a large-scale evacuation, saying residents would be safer if they stayed off jammed roads.
Such differences reflect the divided authority in a region encompassing 17 cities and counties spread over two states and a federal district. New York's mayor can order his city's 8 million residents to leave, but "there is no single individual that may issue an evacuation order" for the 5 million people in the Washington region, the guide says.
Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, said it was "just stunning" to hear of the differences in local plans.
"The solution to this has to be an understanding among jurisdictions, not just agreeing about evacuation routes, but about who's in charge," he said.
But officials said a direct chain of command is not possible, because individual governments have authority over their own first responders and other resources.
George W. Foresman, a former Homeland Security undersecretary for preparedness, said the original goal was too ambitious.
"The premise of having a single plan is great, as long as you've figured out individually, in each of the jurisdictions, what you need to be doing. But I don't think we had gotten to that point yet," he said.
This "guide" is 1,300 pages. Yes, it could use some work, but one of the biggest issue I provided comment on was the lack of a plan to contraflow anything. Welcome to my world.
Seniorchiefbriansmith, Us "sandpeeps" are back to work today after our "bomb scare" from yesterday, thanks for your concern. I never knew nor felt my backbone leave my body when I was transfered to a shore unit. What we know of it was a lady rolled a suitcase into the intersection and told the guard it was a bomb. Of course all we heard was a recording inside the building, "Shelter in place, moved to an interior room or hallway HQ is under imminent threat" That went on for 10 minutes then we were told by the security iofficer that it wasn't a drill that there was a real threat to the building after about another 15-20 minute Adm Papp came on to let us know that they had arrested the "lady", bomb dogs did not "hit" on the bag and that the bomb squad had removed it. Later
Originally posted by GMC_USCG: Seniorchiefbriansmith, Us "sandpeeps" are back to work today after our "bomb scare" from yesterday, thanks for your concern. I never knew nor felt my backbone leave my body when I was transfered to a shore unit. What we know of it was a lady rolled a suitcase into the intersection and told the guard it was a bomb. Of course all we heard was a recording inside the building, "Shelter in place, moved to an interior room or hallway HQ is under imminent threat" That went on for 10 minutes then we were told by the security iofficer that it wasn't a drill that there was a real threat to the building after about another 15-20 minute Adm Papp came on to let us know that they had arrested the "lady", bomb dogs did not "hit" on the bag and that the bomb squad had removed it. Later
So this was an actual bomb scare - glad it was just a scare - I heard it may have been more serious, like one of the JO's saying "hey Master Chief I've got a good idea"! ag
I seem to remember there was a bomb threat a while back. It was almost lunch time. Instead of creating a panic, they evacuated the senior officers and quietly went about searching for a bomb. It turned out to be false.
I remember that about 1983 or 1984 during that time we had several bomb threats.
I never knew nor felt my backbone leave my body when I was transfered to a shore unit.
GMC, that's the scariest thing of all. You never feel it happening to you, then suddenly, one day while on the road talking to a bunch of Coasties, you hear yourself talking about how good the latest policy from HQ is. At first if feels good to talk about it...then you notice your audience's eyes moving all over the place, keeping focus on you as you squiggle and squirm involuntarily....
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I was there during the bomb threat when they evacuated the senior staff while the rest of Hq simply evacuated the building like a fire escape drill. I had the pleasure of being a fire warden and being there when the local bomb squad brought the dogs in. The dogs and bomb squad were awesome. Very professional crew responded. After the fact, the senior staff (including the Commandant) looked pretty silly as they were whisked away from the building as everyone else at HQ remained at ground zero for nothing to happen thank goodness!!
Those are interesting observations. The COMDT wasn't even in the building that day.
Those are interesting observations. The COMDT wasn't even in the building that day
"This Member" -----> I think you will find the Captain was talking about a previous bomb threat.. This latest one was NOT the first or only bomb threat.....
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