This was handed out this past week on the LA Commuter Railroad.... There are many more deputies on the LAMTA Red Line Subway under downtown LA, and at LA Union Station (100 trains a day now)
Posted on 03/26/2004 4:01:48 PM PST by RaceBannon
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BRIDGEPORT -- A terror threat targets Connecticut's busiest stretch of highway, the Interstate-95 corridor in Bridgeport. State police began stepping up security in the area Thursday.
The response is a coordinated effort between local and state police, the Coast Guard, and Homeland Security.
People taking the port Jefferson ferry to long island underwent police checks of vehicles at the docks today.
One of the more visible signs of the increased security measures put into place after authorities received information that Bridgeport could be targeted.
"It's nerve-wracking .. .you see police, and all that's going on, you often wonder," said Long Island resident Timothy Smith.
"What we've done now because of the alerts we've increased police to 24 hours, seven days a week," says Joseph Savino the Harbormaster. "Matter of fact, we just got back to the dock. We were out on patrol."
the alert appears to involve the stretch of I-95 that skirts the city, an area that includes the ferry terminal. The I-95 bridge over the harbor and the Metro North tracks that run parallel to the highway.
"It began with homeland security in Washington obtaining intelligence information and passing it to Connecticut," says State Police spokesman Sgt. Paul Vance. "In this day and age, all intelligence is taken seriously and passed on to law enforcement agencies that it might affect."
State police stress that the intelligence in this situation is both non-specific and unsubstantiated, but is taken very seriously -- hence the increased security.
Measures people seem willing to put up with for the peace of mind it affords them.
"Better the security here than to have a problem when we're out in the middle of Long Island sound on a boat," says Robert Mancuso.
This was handed out this past week on the LA Commuter Railroad.... There are many more deputies on the LAMTA Red Line Subway under downtown LA, and at LA Union Station (100 trains a day now)
Nah. If they were disabling escape routes, they would have melted the Northbound lanes, not the Southbound. Besides, a jihadi wouldn't last 5 minutes in Bridgeport. They'd eat 'em alive.
That can't be right, it's always the truckers fault. They shouldn't be tailgating when that car jumps right in front of them and then hits their brakes to make that turn/exit.
May 25, 1981 Atlantic Ocean An EA-6B aircraft attempting to land at night struck a helicopter, then hit another aircraft and tow tractor before coming to rest. A fuel fire erupted. Improved flight deck fire fighting systems quickly contained the fire, and once the fire was believed to be out, the order was given to start the clean-up. As sailors approached the scene, a SPARROW missile warhead that was buried in the debris detonated. The explosion restarted the fire and three more warheads detonated before the fire could be extinguished. Fourteen sailors were killed and 45 injured. Three planes were destroyed and nine were damaged.
November 30, 1988 Arabian Sea A 20mm cannon on an A-7 Corsair aircraft accidentally fires during maintenance setting six other aircraft ablaze aboard USS NIMITZ, killing one. NIMITZ continues operations.
April 18, 1996 Gulf of Thailand One sailor was killed and four others injured when an arresting cable on NIMITZ' flight deck snapped and struck a group of sailors. The accident happend as an F-14A came in for landing on the deck and the arresting cable broke. The plane apparently landed safely. It is not known if the plane had to abort its effort to land and circle the ship before returning for a landing.
Kinda like the LIE.......outdated before it was built
There were TWO drivers who cut off the truck?
Are the police actively looking for them?
They just smiled as they handed it back.
Peculiar. Especially in light of the upgraded security measures now.
I never had to fight a fire on the flight deck, but I did have to fight a really nasty grease/dust fire that started in the forward galley exhaust vents.
One of the mess cooks activated the Halon system, but forgot to secure the exhaust fans first, totally ineffective. That duct ran from the 2nd deck amidships to the O3 level, port-side where it exhausted from the ship just forward of the angle. It was initially called as a flight deck fire when all of the smoke started pouring over the angle. About two minutes later, the ducts on the second deck started to melt and rained fire down all over the galley. What a freakin' mess.
But the Goethals Bridge accident in NYC today had me thinking. There was also another bridge closure in NYC, but it must be cleared up by now since it's not on the radar.
GOETHALS BRIDGE CLOSED
Mar 26, 2004 2:22 pm US/Eastern(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) One person was killed Friday when four trucks got into an accident on the Goethals Bridge, authorities said..... The bridge, which connects Staten Island to New Jersey, was closed shortly after the 12:40 p.m. accident, and it was not immediately known when the span would be reopened, said Port Authority spokesman Tony Ciavolella. One of the trucks was carrying liquid nitrogen, but there was no leak, Ciavolella added.
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