Joint Base Andrews gives ‘All Clear’ on lockdown
Active shooter alerts have ‘been liftted’
CHERYL CHUMLEY
WND.com
June 30, 2016
Joint Base Andrews went into lockdown Thursday morning for a couple hours, after news of an active shooter situation – amid the base’s planned training for just such a situation – led to emergency response and widespread media attention.
In a tweet about 10:39 a.m., Joint Base Andrews tweeted: “‘All Clear.’ The lock down on base has been lifted.”
In a followup Twitter post seconds later, JBA clarified: “‘All Clear’ for the base with the exception of Malcolm Grow medical facility.”
The confusion came because an individual looking out the window of the Malcolm Grow Medical Clinic saw two people carrying long guns and phoned in what they thought was an incident. But the two people carrying weapons were only taking part in planned active shooter training operations that were already underway.
The previous hour-and-a-half or so, however, was tense.
Earlier in the morning, Stars and Stripes, citing the Pentagon, reported a “barricade situation” on the third floor of the building that serves as a medical facility.
Joint Base Andrews’ Twitter account, meanwhile, was a flurry of messages.
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