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KGW 8 Portland reports that a storage tank holding flammable material caught fire on July
24 at Energy & Materials Recovery Inc., a company that processes a variety of used fuels, near the Expo Center in Portland, Oregon. The fire scorched the exterior insulation of
several 25,000 gallon tanks. (See item 5 )
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WLBT 3 Jackson reports that an explosion in Rankin County, Mississippi injured three people when an Air Gas 18 wheeler that was filled up with carbon dioxide collided with a
Canadian National train on July 26. (See item 8 )
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July 27, Associated Press – (Montana) Semitruck crash and fire kills 2. A stretch of
Highway 72 between Bridger and Belfry, Montana, is open again after a semi-truck crash and fire killed two people. The Montana Highway Patrol says the crash happened
Sunday morning when the driver of a semi-truck lost control, overturning the vehicle in
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the front yard of a home near the road. The rig was hauling oil, and it caught fire. Those inside the house were able to evacuate with no injuries, though the fire did cause some damage to the home.
Source: http://www.kxmc.com/News/411706.asp
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July 26, Farmington Daily Times – (New Mexico) Project to prevent power outages in Western San Juan County. An electrical system that would prevent power outages in much of western San Juan County, New Mexico, and cost about $5 million will be finished in December. City councilors approved Tuesday the purchase of almost
$900,000 in power lines, one of the final phases of the project. The power lines will run almost 13 miles from Hogback to just west of Farmington in the county. The San Juan
Generating Station would feed power to a station in Hogback to support the electrical system. The project, which began in 2006, will “almost negate” power failures from
Shiprock to Sullivan Avenue in Farmington, said the senior electrical engineer for the
Farmington Electric Utility System. In addition to power lines, the project included the construction of two electric stations, one in Hogback and another near New Mexico 170 called Westloop. The former is completed and the latter is under construction. The power lines are capable of transmitting 200 megawatts, or enough power to serve the city of Farmington on any given summer day when people are using the most electricity.
Source : http://www.daily-times.com/ci_12916968
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July 25, McClatchy-Tribune Information Services – (Iowa) Downtown power outage shows grid weakness.
One of the many legacies of the flood in Cedar Rapids may be a weakened electrical grid, as Thursday’s downtown power outage showed. Some 14 miles of underground cable in downtown Cedar Rapids were submerged in the flood, and it is tough to tell how much long-term damage they sustained. “Even a year after the flood, we still have some vulnerabilities,” said a spokesman for Alliant Energy. “We could be dealing with flood-related issues for the next three to five years.” Thursday night’s underground explosion and power outage closed bars and restaurants and forced
32 people to evacuate buildings near a 13,800-volt electrical vault. On Friday, the sidewalk in front of the Freedom Festival office on Second Street was charred, and generators were running stoplights at some downtown intersections. The lights went out between the Cedar River and Fifth Street SE because an underground cable failed, probably because of flood damage, he said. Seven underground cables inside a pipe in a downtown alley got so hot they started to melt together. Passers-by reported smoke near the Granby Building a little before 8 p.m. Much of downtown Cedar Rapids was without power Thursday night, and remained so through early morning Friday as Alliant Energy workers tried to repair underground cable outside the Granby Building.
Source: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2009/07/25/4291428.htm
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July 24, Treasure Coast Palm – (Florida) Vero Beach’s electric distribution system violated procedures, but details, sanctions won’t be known until end of year. Vero
Beach, Florida, city officials said they do not expect to hear about any possible sanctions in connection with an audit of procedures at the city’s electric transmission and distribution system until at least November. The city was in the process of determining whether Transmission and Distribution Systems operations manager should be fired
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following that inspection, but he ended up resigning a little more than a week ago, said city officials. The audit indicated he may have failed to file a compliance report on time, although he contended he did. Electric utilities are required to file various reports on their operations to regulatory agencies. The inspection, or audit, by the Florida
Reliability Coordinating Council in conjunction with the National Energy Reliability
Council, apparently found some possible problems with the city utility after the audit in early June. The Electric Utilities director said the missed filing dates probably constituted the majority of the findings. He also said the utility did not know at the time that it was supposed to have an automated, computerized testing system in place for the transmission and distribution network.
Source : http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/jul/24/vero-beachs-electric-distributionsystem-but-be/
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July 24, KGW 8 Portland – (Oregon) Smoke visible for miles after explosion-fire near
Expo Center. A storage tank holding flammable material caught fire at a business near the Portland Expo Center. Portland Fire Bureau crews were dispatched to the business just after noon Friday on reports of an explosion. A tank holding flammables caught fire at the Energy & Materials Recovery Inc. The company processes a variety of used fuels.
The president told KGW that vapors being vented from a tank being filled with used oil drifted over a wall that separates that tank from a burner. The burner drew the vapors in, which created the ignition. A Fire Bureau spokesman said the fire scorched the exterior insulation of several 25,000 gallon tanks of flammable material. Steps were taken to possibly evacuate a half-mile area around the fire, but those plans were dropped after crews arrived and assessed the scene. Thick black smoke could be seen from I-5 for about 15 minutes but had dissipated by 12:20. Dispatchers reported around 12:25 that the fire was under control. No injuries were reported during the two-alarm fire.
Source : http://www.kgw.com/newslocal/stories/kgw_072409_news_fire_explosion.7165e24a.html
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July 24, Galveston Daily News – (Texas) Lightning sparks oil tank blaze. A lightning strike ignited a fire at a crude oil storage tank in Texas City, Texas on Thursday. The fire was quickly brought under control, thanks largely to the tank’s internal firesuppression system. The blaze broke out about 6 p.m. as a line of thunderstorms moved through Galveston County. Lightning struck a tank owned by Teppco at the Seaway
Crude Oil facility on Loop 197 near the Texas City Wye. The tank contained light crude oil. The blaze sent a plume of black smoke drifting over parts of west Texas City and La
Marque. Loop 197 and parts of state Highway 3 and state Highway 146 were closed while crews fought the fire. Texas City did not issue a shelter-in-place order but sent automated phone messages to inform residents of the fire.
Source : http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=54e1aed06b04af56
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July 24, Greeley Tribune – (Colorado) Oil well rig fire near Platteville caused more damage than first thought.
Estimates on damage to a gas well rig near Platteville,
Colorado last week were low, according to the owner of the well, and there could be a half-million dollars in damage. The well caught fire Tuesday when a backhoe tore loose a well head and gas began spewing out and caught fire. Nine workers at the site all
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escaped unharmed, and the Platteville/Gilcrest Fire Department — along with four other departments — extinguished the blaze.
Source : http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20090724/NEWS/907249978/1005/NONE&pare ntprofile=1001
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July 27, WLBT 3 Jackson – (Mississippi) Train-tanker collision injures three, one critically. An explosion in Rankin County injured three people, one critically, when an
18 wheeler collided with a train. According to the Mississippi Emergency Management
Agency, it happened around 11:30 on July 26 in Star at Andrew Jackson Circle.
A spokesperson says an Air Gas tanker had just filled up with carbon dioxide when it collided with a Canadian National train. The unidentified truck driver was air lifted in critical condition to University Medical Center. He suffered a broken pelvis, broken legs, and broken spine, as well as a head injury. Entergy reports 1,240 customers lost power following the explosion.
Source: http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=10792153
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July 24, Contra Costa Times – (California) Fuel leak forces evacuation, closes intersection in Oakley. The intersection of Bridgehead Road at Main Street was closed on July 24 after a tanker truck carrying sodium hypochlorite began leaking. An Oakley police sergeant noticed the tanker truck leaking at 2:10 p.m. and pulled over the driver at the intersection. While investigating the leak, the sergeant and a police officer became sick from the fumes and were taken to Antioch’s Sutter Delta Medical Center. The
Contra Costa Fire Department, East Contra Costa Fire Department, Oakley Police
Department, Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office and a county hazardous materials crew responded to the scene. The truck’s driver sealed the leak on the 5,000-gallon tanker. An
Arco gas station at the intersection was briefly closed but had reopened by 3:45 p.m.
Police and fire crews set up a makeshift command center at the Shell gas station across the street. It was unclear how much sodium hypochlorite leaked from the tanker, but it did not appear to be significant.
Source: http://www.contracostatimes.com/localnews/ci_12908667?nclick_check=1
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July 27, Reuters – (Michigan) AEP shuts Mich. Cook 2 reactor. American Electric
Power Co. Inc. (AEP.N) shut the 1,060-megawatt Unit 2 at the Cook nuclear power station in Michigan on July 26 due to a reactor coolant pump seal malfunction, the company told the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a report. All systems functioned as expected after the trip, the company said.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2751303920090727
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July 27, Reuters – (Connecticut) Dominion Conn. Millstone 2 reactor back at full power. Dominion Resources Inc’s (D.N) 882-megawatt Unit 2 at the Millstone nuclear power plant in Connecticut exited an outage and ramped up to full power by early July
27, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report. The unit shut by July 3 due to a grid disturbance caused by offsite lightning strikes to the local electric distribution system. While preparing to restart the reactor, operators took the unit from hot standby to cold shutdown mode on July 13 to fix a small leak in the reactor coolant system in the vicinity of a reactor coolant pump.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN27512336200
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July 26, Occupational Health and Safety – (National) MSHA reissues warning on pumps’ explosive potential. The Mine Safety and Health Administration recently reissued a program information bulletin alerting enforcement personnel, mine operators, independent contractors, and equipment manufacturers of the potential safety hazards related to the explosion of pumps and/or associated components. The bulletin notes that such explosions have resulted in two fatalities, one serious accident, and one non-injury incident over an eight-year period. Catastrophic failure of pumping systems can occur due to an overpressure condition created within the pump when fluid flow through the pump is lost, resulting in the overheating of any trapped fluid within the pump case, says the bulletin, posted July 21 to the agency’s Web site. Loss of fluid flow can occur due to a blockage in the discharge and/or inlet piping. It also can also occur due to a malfunctioning or inadvertently closed valve, or when a sudden surge of fluid (“fluid hammer”) through the pump or into downstream components take place after a delay in acquiring fluid, especially when the pump is turning at or near its rated speed. MSHA says such failures and potential explosions of pumping systems can be reduced by detecting one or more loss-of-flow conditions. Loss-of-flow conditions can be detected by 1) using direct fluid flow measuring equipment, 2) measuring the pump motor current draw (amperage) to detect loss of pump load, and/or 3) measuring the pump temperature to detect overheating of the fluid. Monitoring pumps for loss of flow will help detect dangerous conditions resulting from malfunctioning equipment, loss of fluid pickup, or plugged or restricted discharge and/or inlet piping, the agency says.
Source: http://ohsonline.com/articles/2009/07/26/msha-reissues-warning.aspx
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July 23, Albany Times Union – (New York) Two hurt at GE plant.
An accident at the
General Electric plant in Schenectady Thursday afternoon caused two employees to be sent to the hospital. A GE spokeswoman confirmed that two workers were hurt at the plant shortly after 1 p.m. but declined to provide details. She said the two workers were taken to an area hospital, but their injuries are not life-threatening. “We are currently conducting an investigation into it,” she said. She said GE would not release any information about the names and conditions of the employees.
Source: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=823689
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July 27, CCH – (New Hampshire) OSHA proposes more than $255,000 in fines against New Hampshire firearms manufacturer for 60 safety and health hazards.
OSHA has proposed $255,150 in fines against Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc. for 60 alleged violations of safety and health standards identified during the agency’s inspections of the firearms manufacturer’s Newport, New Hampshire, plant conducted between
November 2008 and May 2009. “Our inspections identified a large number of mechanical, respirator protection, electrical, lead, fire, explosive and other hazards that must be effectively and continuously addressed to protect the workers at this plant from potentially deadly or disabling injuries and illnesses now and in the future,” said the
OSHA’s Area Director in New Hampshire. OSHA found that the company failed to guard rotating parts on drill presses, sanding and polishing machines, despite its knowledge that employees were exposed to severe or fatal injuries if they came in contact with the rotating parts. As a result, OSHA has issued the company one willful citation with $63,000 in proposed fines. OSHA defines a willful violation as one committed with plain indifference to, or intentional disregard for, employee safety and health. Additional safety hazards include the lack of spark detectors or suppression systems to minimize fire and explosion hazards in ventilation systems that collect combustible wood and metal dust; allowing combustible dust to accumulate; unguarded floors and platforms; lack of eyewashes and adequate personal protective equipment; inadequate procedures, equipment and training to lock out machines’ power sources; improper storage of compressed gas cylinders; damaged, improperly used or ungrounded electrical equipment; additional unguarded machinery; and deficiencies with paint spray booths, confined space rescue, compressed air, forklifts and the transfer of flammable liquids.
Source: http://hr.cch.com/news/safety/072709a.asp
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July 24, Navy Times – (Alabama) LCS 2 hits high speeds, problems on trials. The littoral combat ship Independence hit a speed of 43 knots on its builder’s trials while running at less than full power, but problems with its propulsion plant mean it has to sail again for at least a second set of tests, its shipbuilder announced on July 24. The Navy’s second littoral combat ship, an aluminum trimaran built by a contractor team helmed by
General Dynamics, has been taking trips to sea and back from its shipyard at Mobile,
Alabama as engineers have tested many of its engines and systems. Like the first LCS, the Lockheed Martin-built Freedom, the Independence has a combined diesel and gas propulsion plant. Independence was running both its diesels and turbines, but not to their limits, when the ship reached its high trials speed. But the ship had engineering problems that delayed the start of its trials by three days, and other problems underway have kept it from making a true full power run. The current schedule calls for the
Independence to be commissioned this fall, although both LCS models are also more than a year behind schedule and more than 100 percent over-budget. Navy budget
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documents for fiscal 2010 put the cost for Independence at about $704 million and for
Freedom at about $637 million, compared to projected cost of about $220 million for each.
Source: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/07/navy_lcs2_trials_072409w/
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July 26, Reuters – (International) Kuwait financier facing U.S. fraud suit found dead.
A Kuwaiti financier facing a fraud suit by U.S. authorities was found dead on Sunday in an apparent suicide. He was the CEO of Al Raya Investment, which is 10 percent owned by Citigroup Inc, and had been at the center of a financial scandal that erupted last week.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against him and two other finance firms last week, saying they had improperly earned millions of dollars from trades in two U.S. firms, Harman International Industries Inc. and Textron Inc. In papers filed in Manhattan federal court last week, the SEC said the financier and entities linked to him earned more than $5 million from well-timed trades in the two U.S. firms. Other defendants include United Gulf Bank and KIPCO Asset Management Co. Both are part of the Kuwait Projects Co group. All the firms have denied the allegations. The SEC said it obtained an emergency court order freezing the trading profits in U.S. accounts held by the financier and the other firms. A SEC official said an investigation began soon after learning about a takeover hoax last Monday, at the same time as the markets and media outlets. Harman shares briefly soared after several media outlets reported that a private investment firm called Arabian Peninsula Group planned to buy it at almost double its market price.
Source: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/reuters/2009/07/26/2009-07-
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July 25, Bloomberg – (Georgia; New York) Lender failures reach 64 as Georgia shuts security bank’s units. Security Bank Corp.’s six Georgia subsidiaries and Waterford
Village Bank in New York were seized by regulators, pushing this year’s toll of failed
U.S. lenders to 64, the most since 1992.
The six units of Macon-based Security Bank, with total assets of $2.8 billion and deposits of $2.4 billion, were closed by the Georgia
Department of Banking and Finance, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was named receiver, the FDIC said on July 24 in a statement. State Bank and Trust Co. of
Pinehurst, Georgia, assumed the deposits and agreed to share losses with the FDIC on most of the assets. “The loss-sharing arrangement is projected to maximize returns on the assets covered by keeping them in the private sector,” the FDIC said. “The agreement also is expected to minimize disruptions for loan customers.” Bank failures this year have cost the U.S. deposit insurance fund more than $13.5 billion, including
$812.6 million from the July 24 seizures, straining the FDIC reserves amid the steepest recession since the Great Depression. The FDIC has imposed an emergency fee aimed at raising $5.6 billion to replenish the fund, which fell to $13 billion, the lowest since
1993, at the end of the first quarter. Security Bank, which lost more than $200 million in the past five quarters, mostly on loans to Atlanta builders and developers, said in
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November that it was seeking to tap the Treasury’s bailout fund. In April, with most of its units operating under a cease-and-desist order, the company withdrew the application.
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aTvSvyYr_sEE
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July 24, Alibaba.com – (New York) U.S. investors Greenwood, Walsh indicted for fraud. Two United States money managers arrested in February on charges of running a more than decade-long fraud at their WG Trading firm have been indicted by a federal grand jury, according to court documents.
The two were charged with conspiracy, securities fraud, commodities fraud, two counts of wire fraud, and money laundering in an indictment unsealed on July 24 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
U.S. prosecutors are seeking at least $131 million in forfeiture connected to the conspiracy and securities and wire fraud charges, according to the court papers.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission also brought civil charges against the two men in February.
WG Trading, a broker-dealer, had offices in
Greenwich, Connecticut; Jersey City, New Jersey; and North Hills, New York. The money managers oversaw assets of institutional investors including Carnegie Mellon
University in Pennsylvania.
Source: http://news.alibaba.com/article/detail/markets/100143338-1-us-investorsgreenwood%252C-walsh-indicted.html
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July 27, Charlotte Observer – (North Carolina) Fire at cab site near airport was intentional. Fire investigators say a blaze early on July 26 gutted a Yellow Cab
Company of Charlotte building near the airport was intentionally set and caused about
$750,000 in damage. The beige structure on Golf Acres Drive just off of Morris Field
Drive was still standing later July 26. But part of its metal skin was warped and there were black scorch marks along the roof line from intense heat and flames. The cab company’s operations were unaffected, said the co-owner. Dispatch calls are handled by his Utah-based operation using Blackberry and GPS technology. The technology automatically matches up taxi calls with the cab that is the closest. The co-owner was interviewed by investigators, said he did not know the cause of the blaze. As of July 26, he still had not heard that investigators believed it was intentionally set, he said. He said the building was insured. A fleet of yellow taxi cabs was parked on the property July 26.
The cars did not appear to have been damaged in the fire. It took 48 firefighters more than an hour to get it under control.
Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/854832.html
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July 27, Boston Globe – (Massachusetts) MBTA suspends driver for cellphone. A
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) bus operator was put on a 10-day suspension for possessing a cellphone while working, a spokesman for the transit authority said July 26. The MBTA imposed the suspension on July 24 after completing an investigation prompted by a photographer for the Cambridge Chronicle, who snapped a picture of the bus No. 86 driver on July 22 and complained to the transit authority that
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he was using a cellphone while operating the vehicle. “Video captured by an on-board camera revealed that the bus operator boarded the bus with a cellphone,” but there was
“no conclusive evidence” that the 46-year-old bus driver was using it while driving, said an MBTA spokesman in a statement e-mailed to the Boston Globe. In accordance with
MBTA policy, a second offense of such nature will result in the driver being fired.
Source: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/07/27/mbta_suspends_d river_for_cellphone/
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July 27, Highlands Today – (Florida) City to demolish Sebring airport water tank.
The Sebring City Council voted 3-2 on July 21 to authorize its staff to obtain bids for a new 200,000-gallon water storage tank at the Sebring Regional Airport. The cost to make major repairs to the airport’s existing 350,000-gallon water-storage tank was more than $260,000, not including work done outside the tank. This was more than the
$200,000-plus estimated to build a newer smaller one, according to documents supplied by the Water Department Superintendent. “Also, if repairing the tank, we will probably run into unforeseen problems that will need to be addressed and will probably add to the cost of repairing the tank,” he wrote. He recommended demolition of the old tank.
Council wondered if a direct water connection to the city’s water supply was not sufficient to meet the airport’s needs. There are Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requirements for fire suppression needs was the answer the utilities director gave. The water tank keeps the water flowing in case the direct water connection is interrupted.
Also running the water line to connect up with the airport’s system is high. “Our water connection on U.S. 98 is sufficient to serve this potable water source, but I am concerned about the fire protection supply,” he wrote in a memo. “The airport complex has some very large buildings on site. At the present time we have one source; from the
12-inch line on U.S. 98.”
Source: http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2009/jul/27/la-city-to-demolishsebring-airport-water-tank/
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July 26, Associated Press – (New York) Southwest flight makes unexpected LI landing. A Southwest Airlines flight headed to Florida had to make an unexpected stop at an airport on New York’s Long Island. A Southwest spokesman says a flight attendant reported an electrical smell after takeoff the morning of July 26. Flight 693 had departed from Bradley International Airport in Connecticut at 7:21 a.m. July 26, bound for Orlando. The cockpit reported a problem shortly after. The plane landed safely at MacArthur Airport just before 8 a.m. A MacArthur Airport spokeswoman says the 131 passengers and 5 crew members were all evacuated safely. They boarded another flight and continued to Florida shortly before 10 a.m.
Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ia89ZEgPNQkIHxPaUAlnkI8nu mDAD99M7K9G0
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July 26, WBBM 2 Chicago – (Illinois) Reward offer increased for Sugar Grove railway bomber. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has increased from $5,000 to $7,500 the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person
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who bombed a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) switch shed near Sugar
Grove on May 12. An FBI Special Agent said that to date, there is no evidence linking the incident to any other sabotage either on BNSF property or in the Chicago area, and said it may have been “a prank.” Someone dropped a pipe bomb down a rooftop air vent, and the resulting explosion destroyed switching equipment inside. No one was hurt, the agent said. The blast disrupted both Amtrak and freight operations on the line for several days. The shack is located several miles west of the terminal used by Metra
BNSF commuter trains, in Aurora. The agent said a number of tips have been processed and extensive investigation done. But he said the early hour of the bombing and its location has made it difficult to find any eyewitnesses. The FBI is investigating alongside BNSF’s own police department and Kane County Sheriff’s police, under the
Federal Train Wreck statute, which provides for penalties of up to 20 years in prison.
Source: http://www.ble.org/pr/news/headline.asp?id=27004
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July 26, Associated Press – (California) Man pleads not guilty in SD-area trolley shooting. An 18-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to the shooting of a security guard at a trolley station, part of a series of assaults on security officers that spanned five days in San Diego County. The El Cajon Superior Court Judge on July 24 ordered that the shooter be held on $1 million bail. The man is charged with attempted murder, robbery, battery with great bodily injury and making death threats in separate assaults on three different Metropolitan Transit System security officers. In the most serious of the attacks, a guard at the Grossmont Trolley Station was shot twice and had his gun and ammunition stolen on July 15. The wounded guard was treated at a hospital and released the next day.
Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12919679?nclick_check=1
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July 25, Boston Globe – (Massachusetts) Flight to Puerto Rico returns to Logan after smell of smoke. An American Airlines flight headed for San Juan, Puerto Rico from
Boston Logan International Airport turned around and returned to Logan July 25 after crew members smelled smoke. An American Airlines spokesman said Flight 1937 left the gate at 8:35 a.m., but returned to Logan an hour later. Crewmembers on the flight said the smoke emanated from the rear bathroom. The flight landed safely, with none of the 185 passengers or crew injured. A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said there was no sign of fire in a preliminary examination of the aircraft, a Boeing 757, but that the investigation is ongoing.
Source: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/07/flight_to_puert.html
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July 24, WBBM 780 Chicago – (Illinois) Two flights make emergency landings at
O’Hare. Personnel at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on July 24 had to deal with two priority landings simultaneously. About 4 p.m., United Airlines Flight 745, en route from New York LaGuardia International Airport to Denver International Airport, was diverted into O’Hare. Simultaneously, American Airlines Flight 111, arriving at
O’Hare from Rome, developed a possible mechanical problem and requested priority permission to land. Both landings occurred safely, and no one was injured. A fire department spokesman said the United Airlines flight diverted following the discovery of a suspicious powder on board the plane that no one could immediately identify. A
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warning light activated in the cockpit of the American flight, prompting its crew to request priority landing.
Source: http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/4870361.php
See also: http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/4872025.php
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July 25, KDKA 2 Pittsburgh – (Pennsylvania) Suspicious package shuts down local intersection. A busy intersection in Squirrel Hill, Pennsylvania was shut down for several hours on July 25 after the report of a suspicious package. The Allegheny County
Bomb Squad was called out to blow up the package. Officials say it was spotted around
1:30 p.m. in the 1800-block of Murray Avenue near the Squirrel Hill branch of the Post
Office. “[It] was just a harmless piece of postal mail in there; other than that everything worked out fine,” said a sergeant with the Pittsburgh Police. The package turned out to be a container that medical personnel put needles into. Postal Service investigators say they are trying to determine if any charges will be filed against the sender.
Source: http://kdka.com/local/suspicious.package.Squirrel.2.1101261.html
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July 24, WISN 12 Milwaukee – (Wisconsin) Production resumes following fire at
Johnsonville plant.
Production resumed July 24 afternoon at the Johnsonville Sausage plant in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin following a small fire and evacuation. The fire started at about 11 a.m., forcing 325 workers to leave the building. Investigators said an employee was working with isopropyl alcohol in the plant’s quality control lab when the fire started. One worker was treated and released from an area hospital for seconddegree burns to his right leg. No other homes or facilities were evacuated. About 1:15 p.m., firefighters gave the all clear, and employees went back to work. The Johnsonville fire chief said he will need to interview the injured worker.
Source: http://www.wisn.com/cnn-news/20167308/detail.html
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July 26, Dayton Daily News – (Ohio) Apparent hazardous material spill spreads to 2 counties. An apparent hazardous material spill which reached the Stillwater River, prompting local officials to call the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, apparently started in Darke County, fire officials in Miami County said on July 26. It was not clear
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what the substance was, but “it’s got a sewage smell to it,” said the chief of the Pleasant
Hill-Newton Twp. Fire Department. Firefighters traced the substance in both directions and found that it went back to the Darke County border. The fire department then decided to call out the Ohio EPA and the state Department of Natural Resources to help manage the problem, the fire chief said.
Source: http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/apparent-hazardousmaterial-spill-spreads-to-2-counties-222440.html
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July 25, ENCToday – (North Carolina) Untreated sewage released. Camp Lejeune experienced a release of untreated sewage and storm water from a manhole associated with the wastewater collection system around 2:45 p.m. on July 24. The release was the result of severe thunderstorms and heavy rain that occurred in the vicinity of building S-
635 on Piney Green Road. Normal operations were restored and the release was stopped by 5 p.m. Approximately 40,500 gallons of untreated water were release, a portion of which entered a tributary of Wallace Creek. Base personnel cleaned up the affected spill area and are sampling water in areas adjacent to the release to monitor water quality.
Source: http://www.enctoday.com/articles/release-66036-jdn-water-untreated.html
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July 24, Water Technology Online – (Missouri) 31 MO systems fail to complete routine testing. Thirty-one drinking water systems in Missouri have “chronically” failed to complete required drinking water testing, the Missouri Department of Natural
Resources said in a July 23 press release . According to the department, each system has at least three major monitoring violations in a 12-month period. The state requires all public water systems to test for bacteria at least once a month to verify these systems provide safe drinking water to the public; the current list of violators represents 1 percent of the approximately 2,800 public drinking water systems in Missouri. “Chronic violators are the exception rather than the rule,” the release noted. Violators include public water systems that serve subdivisions and mobile home parks.
Source: http://watertechonline.com/news.asp?N_ID=72294
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July 24, KGMI 790 Bellingham – (Washington) Bellingham urges water restrictions due to ample algae. The City of Bellingham, Washington , has seen high levels of algae in its water coming from Lake Whatcom. Officials are investigating the cause of the algae. Treated water is still fine to drink, but the algae situation is making it hard to keep up with demand. But more water than normal is being used to produce high quality drinking water because of the algae, said the public works director. “It causes our filtration system at the water treatment facility to clog up quicker than under normal conditions,” he said, “and what we have to do is we have to backwash or clean our filters and we have to use water to do that.” City officials are urging residents to water their lawns every other day.
Source: http://watertechonline.com/news.asp?N_ID=72294
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July 27, Occupational Health Online – (National) Pandemic survey finds 1 in 6 public
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health workers unlikely to respond. Approximately 1 in 6 public health workers said they would not report to work during a pandemic flu emergency regardless of its severity, according to a survey led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health. The findings are a significant improvement over a 2005 study conducted by the same research team, in which more than 40 percent of public health employees said they were unlikely to report to work during a pandemic emergency. The new study suggests ways for improving the response of the public health workforce. The results are published in the July 24 edition of the journal PLoS ONE. The online survey was conducted among 1,835 public health workers in Minnesota, Ohio, and West
Virginia from November 2006 to December 2007. The survey analysis was based on the
Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM), which postulates that willingness to follow instructions in an emergency is based on an individual’s perception of a threat’s validity and belief that the actions taken can be feasibly accomplished and will have a positive impact on the threat.
Source : http://ohsonline.com/articles/2009/07/27/pandemic-survey-finds-1-in-6-publichealth-workers-unlikely-to-respond.aspx
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July 25, Channel3000.com
– (Wisconsin) UW hospital says it wasn’t negligent after treating CJD patient. University of Wisconsin Hospital officials denied on Friday the hospital was negligent in any way regarding the possible transmission of a rare and fatal neurological disease to 53 people. Infectious disease and other hospital officials said the staff did everything they could and adhered to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention polices after learning a patient who underwent brain surgery was infected with the rare neurological disease called Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD. UW
Hospital officials have sent letters to the 53 patients by FedEx and have either reached them by phone or left messages. The hospital on Friday made follow-up phone calls to the patients after discovering they might have been exposed to CJD. Hospital officials held a news conference on Friday morning and denied that any negligence was involved in this matter. They said they planned no changes in how they sterilize neurosurgical instruments, which were the potential route of disease transmission to the 53 patients.
Source: http://www.channel3000.com/health/20166877/detail.html
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July 24, Bloomberg – (National) Swine flu sufferers pass bug to at least two others, study says. Swine flu sufferers pass the bug to about two other people, fostering its spread, according to the first published study of the pandemic strain’s infectiousness in the Southern Hemisphere. Researchers in New Zealand and the Netherlands used mathematical modeling to estimate the transmission potential of the new H1N1 strain, also known as swine flu. In New Zealand, where winter weather is fanning the worst flu season in more than a decade, the virus may be spreading more easily than it did in
Mexico, where it emerged more than four months ago. The research, published in
Friday’s New Zealand Medical Journal, may help public health officials in North
America and Europe anticipate what to expect when the pandemic virus circulates there next winter. The reproduction number in New Zealand is 1.96, meaning that up to 79 percent of people could potentially catch the germ during the epidemic, said one of the study’s authors.
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=adrAANGzz3r4
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July 24, U.S. Food and Drug Administration – (National) FDA authorizes emergency use of another test for 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration Friday announced it has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for another diagnostic test for the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, whose spread has caused the virus to be characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The EUA for the Focus Diagnostics Influenza H1N1 (2009) Real-Time Reverse Transcription
Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) diagnostic test is the third diagnostic test authorized under an EUA by the FDA since the public health emergency involving the
2009 H1N1 influenza virus was declared on April 26, 2009. The EUA allows Focus
Diagnostics to distribute the test to laboratories certified under the Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Amendments (CLIA) to perform high complexity tests. This test is not typically utilized in a doctor’s office — it is a complex laboratory test performed in an environment that has the necessary equipment. These tests are intended for use in the detection of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus in patients with symptoms of respiratory infection.
Source: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm173543.htm
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July 23, News 14 Carolina – (North Carolina) Health officials send out warning after machine malfunction. Officials from the New Hanover Community Health Center in
New Hanover County said a malfunction in a diabetes testing machine may have exposed hundreds of patients to blood borne viruses, according to the Wilmington Star
News. Officials said the warnings are a precautionary measure, and they do not think any viruses were transmitted. The warnings went to patients who used the machine between the beginning of the year through early June.
Source: http://www.news14.com/content/local_news/coastal/612319/health-officialssend-out-warning-after-machine-malfunction/Default.aspx
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July 27, Louisville Courier Journal – (Kentucky) Theft used stealthy computer code.
The world suddenly seemed a lot smaller in late June, following the theft of $415,000 from a bank account belonging to Bullitt County government. Investigators say
Ukrainian criminals hacked their way into Bullitt government computers using malicious code also used to hijack $6 million from banks in the United States, United
Kingdom, Spain and Italy in 2007. Federal investigators are still trying to determine where the Bullitt taxpayers’ funds have gone. An FBI spokesman from the Louisville office said the investigation may take several more weeks. But computer experts say the malicious code, which Bullitt officials identified as “ZeuS,” is a stealthy type of trojan software popular among hackers. A trojan is a program that appears legitimate but actually performs illicit activity. Bullitt County and its bank, Elizabethtown-based First
Federal Savings Bank, are just beginning to grapple with the ramifications left in ZeuS’
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wake. Bullitt officials said the culprits hacked into an e-mail to gain access to county government passwords and used them to withdraw funds from an account used to pay county employees. Bullitt County recovered $105,813.06 of the $415,989.17 discovered missing June 29 by reversing transactions in accounts still containing the stolen money.
Source: http://www.courierjournal.com/article/20090727/ZONE10/907270320/Theft+used+stealthy+computer+cod e
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July 27, Sun Journal – (North Carolina) Swine flu hits MCAS Cherry Point.
Nearly three months after the initial outbreak of the H1N1 virus in Craven County, North
Carolina, another case of the so-called swine flu has been confirmed at Marine Corps
Air Station Cherry Point, and a dozen members of the same military unit are isolated from the public. The latest diagnosis, affecting a Marine, was confirmed July 23, according to a Cherry Point spokesman. The spokesman said the Marine was showing symptoms of the virus on July 20. The man was tested and isolated at that time, and remained in isolation as of July 25. “That is our standard procedure,” the spokesman said on July 25. “If a person comes to the (base) health clinic and is showing any kind of symptoms of the virus, we isolate them.” A Marine Major said the same day that 11 other Marines, who are members of the patient’s same unit, are all also being monitored.
Source: http://www.military.com/news/article/swine-flu-hits-mcas-cherrypoint.html?col=1186032310810&ESRC=topstories.RSS
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July 24, Orange County Register – (California) FBI to investigate Placentia library hacking. The FBI is hunting down the hackers that hijacked the Placentia Public Library
Web site the morning of July 24, a bureau official said the same afternoon. “The FBI will open and investigation into this incident,” said an FBI spokeswoman. The spokeswoman, who works out of the bureau’s Los Angeles field office, said that the FBI has a special unit that investigates “cyber crimes, computer intrusions, defacements, more traditional crimes like fraud and child exploitation.” Visitors to the Placentia
Library Web site were greeted by an image of a flapping flag with a crescent moon and star behind a portrait of famed Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Underneath was the phrase “Editaarruz is back.” A group calling itself the “Federal Atack Team” has apparently hacked www.placentialibrary.org — disabling the site completely. The word
“taarruz” means “attack” or “offensive” in the Turkish language.
Source: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/site-web-search-2506225-google-placentia
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July 26, Seattle Times – (Washington) Bellingham emergency center gets pre-
Olympics trial run. When the 2010 winter Olympics open in Vancouver in February
2010, a new $4 million communications center at Bellingham International Airport 45 miles south will be a key site for counter terrorism and security operations. Officials say a key goal of the center is to make sure travelers move through the border safely and quickly. The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security arrives on Monday to tour the
Olympic Coordination Center, which this week begins a pre-Olympics trial run tied to
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the World Police and Fire Games in Vancouver from July 31-August 9. The center will then shut down until the Olympics, when it is expected to operate at closer to capacity, with seating for 54 representatives of up to 40 state, federal, local, tribal and Canadian agencies.
Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009542205_apwaolympicscenter.htm
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July 26, Associated Press – (California) NTSB: Helicopter hit water tank during refill. A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports says a firefighting helicopter that crashed earlier this month hit a water tank before it went down in a remote area of northern California. The preliminary report released on July 24 says witnesses saw the Sikorsky S-61 helicopter hit the storage tank that it was using to refill water on July 17. Both pilots were able to walk away from the crash near the community of Forks of Salmon, but one suffered serious injuries. At the time of the crash, the helicopter was refilling its water tanks between runs over a wildfire burning on the edge on the Klamath National Forest. The NTSB says a final report was pending.
Source: http://www.kget.com/news/state/story/NTSB-Helicopter-hit-water-tank-duringrefill/ImoVDGfC4kG1nDCff3Yz2Q.cspx
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July 25, Herald Net – (Washington) Damaged road to 911 tower in Arlington area could jeopardize emergency services. Emergency agencies that rely on a key radio tower for 911 service are concerned about public safety because the only road to the tower is impassable. The 60-year-old former logging road was severely damaged during winter storms. Run by Snohomish County Emergency Radio System, the tower northeast of Arlington, Washington, serves emergency responders, including police and fire, as well as Community Transit and the Snohomish County Public Utility District.
Officials would have to spend a lot of money to lease a helicopter to get up to the tower on Frailey Mountain for any reason. During a power outage, for instance, they would need to ferry crews to the site to keep the backup generators running, Marysville’s mayor said. The tower is one of 17 run by the emergency radio system, serving all of
Snohomish County and parts of Skagit and King Counties. Should power go out to the
Frailey tower, the entire system would be compromised.
Source: http://www.enterprisenewspapers.com/article/20090725/NEWS01/707259902/0/ETPZO
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July 25, Associated Press – (New York) 2 NYC men charged with torching NYPD cruiser. Authorities say two New York City men angry about being arrested for drinking in public took it out on a police cruiser, and wound up back behind bars. The pair face charges that they set fire to a patrol car in front of police station in the Bronx early Friday morning. Police say it happened just a short time after the pair were released from custody. Authorities say the men went across the street to a gas station, bought motor oil and then returned to the station to set the fire. Part of the cruiser’s bumper was partially melted.
Source: http://www3.whdh.com/news/articles/national/BO119930/
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July 27, Softpedia – (International) Critical out-of-band patch for Internet Explorer
8. Microsoft is cooking a security refresh for Internet Explorer 8, and earlier supported versions of the browser, that will be released on July 28. According to the Redmond company, the IE update will be accompanied by a security bulletin for Visual Studio.
The software giant underlined that, although two separate security bulletins were scheduled for release come July 28, both updates were designed to resolve a single, overall security problem. The move comes as a necessity to ensure that customers benefit from the broadest protections possible explained the director of MSRC.
“While we can’t go into specifics about the issue prior to release, we can say that the Visual
Studio bulletin will address an issue that can affect certain types of applications. The
Internet Explorer bulletin will provide defense-in-depth changes to Internet Explorer to help provide additional protections for the issues addressed by the Visual Studio bulletin. The Internet Explorer update will also address vulnerabilities rated as Critical that are unrelated to the Visual Studio bulletin that were privately and responsibly reported,” the director noted. The patches coming July 28 are what Microsoft refers to as out-of-band security updates.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Critical-Out-of-Band-Patch-for-Internet-
Explorer-8-117601.shtml
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July 27, USA Today – (International) Hackers may slip through hole found in Adobe tools. Cybercriminals may have a clear path to spread mayhem on computers this week by taking advantage of a newly discovered vulnerability in Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash video player and Acrobat Reader, the widely used tool for opening PDF documents.
Since early July, troublemakers have been e-mailing PDF files with corrupted Flash video clips and hacking into websites to implant them. These clips, when activated, enable attackers to quickly install malicious programs on the user’s computer. Criminals typically take control of PCs, turning them into obedient “bots.” The number of attacks could soar this week as Adobe scrambles to develop an emergency patch by July 31.
The company recently began issuing security patches once a quarter, with the next update scheduled on Sept. 8. “The volume of cybercrime has been increasing, so we’ve stepped up our efforts to supply best-in-class security,” says Adobe’s senior vice president and general manager of business productivity.
But even that might not solve the problem. Adobe alerts computer users every seven days about software updates that can include security patches, but users often defer installing such updates.
The security firm has already found a booby-trapped e-mail sent to a corporate executive.
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2009-07-26-adobehackers_N.htm
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July 25, ZDNet – (International) HP researchers develop browser-based darknet.
Two researchers for Hewlett-Packard have created a browser-based darknet, an idea that could make it easier for businesses to keep eavesdroppers from uncovering confidential in formation. Darknets are encrypted peer-to-peer networks normally used to c ommunicate files between closed groups of people. Most darknets require a certain
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level of technological literacy to set up and maintain, including taking care of the necessary servers. However, two HP researchers plan during the week of August 3 to demonstrate a browser-based darknet called “Veiled,” which they claim requires little proficiency to set up and run. “This will really lower the barriers to participation,” one of the researchers told ZDNet UK. “If you want to create a darknet, you can send an encrypted e-mail saying, ‘Here’s the URL.’ When (the recipient visits) the Web site, the browser can just get (the darknet application) going.” The researchers are scheduled to demonstrate the technology next week at the Black Hat security conference in Las
Vegas.
Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10295761-83.html
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July 27, BBC News – (New York) White House bomb hoaxer sentenced.
A 19-yearold man who phoned the White House and claimed there was a bomb in New York City on May 10, 2008, has been sentenced. During a barbecue, the hoaxer and resident of the
United Kingdom, told a White House operator there was a bomb in Madison Square
Gardens, Sheffield Magistrates’ Court was told. He was given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for 18 months. The prosecutor said the operator had pressed a malicious call trace button and the call was found to be a hoax and located to the U.K. The U.S. Secret
Service, the FBI, the New York City Police Department and the Counter Terrorism Unit in the U.K. were all involved in the subsequent investigation. The hoaxer, apparently drunk, was heard “giggling” while he made the call and others were laughing but told him to stop when they realized the implications. The prosecutor said there was “great concern” in the U.S. when the call was first received but it was soon realized it was a hoax and Madison Square Gardens was not evacuated.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/8170498.stm
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July 26, Associated Press – (New York) 7 kids hurt when carnival ride derails.
Authorities say a children’s roller coaster derailed at a Bronx carnival, leaving seven children with minor injuries. Firefighters say the ride ran off its tracks around 9:30 p.m. on July 25 at a neighborhood carnival on Westchester and St. Theresa avenues, near
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Pelham Bay Park. Police say the roller coaster stood no more than three to four feet off the ground. The seven children have been taken to a hospital. Police describe their injuries as bumps and scratches. It is not immediately clear how many children were on the ride or who was running the carnival.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534861,00.html?test=latestnews
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July 26, New York Times – (New York) Another crumbling building evacuated.
An exterior wall of a three-story building on Ryerson Street in Brooklyn, New York around the corner from June’s Myrtle Avenue building collapse was evacuated after it rained bricks onto La Stalla restaurant below it. On July 26 the Department of Buildings issued one violation to the owner of the building for failing to properly maintain the building, which will remain closed to residents until a contractor completes emergency repairs, including the construction of overhead scaffolding to protect pedestrians.
Source: http://fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/another-crumbling-buildingevacuated/
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July 24, Fayette Citizen – (Georgia) Spillway at Battery Way to be fixed. A company has been hired by Peachtree City to stave off erosion problems that have endangered the spillway in the Battery Way Park. Engineered Restoration Inc. (ERI) will undertake pressure grouting repairs to cure voids caused by stormwater undercutting the existing concrete spillway, according to city staff. The damage has created a potential for the spillway to collapse “and represents a significant safety concern,” staff noted in a memo to the city council last week. The erosion is also beginning to undercut the supports to the multi-use path bridge, officials said. The contract for the work is $19,800 as ERI had the lowest of the five bids submitted and was deemed to have positive feedback from its previous projects. This project is being funded by the city’s stormwater program.
Source: http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/38289
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