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Suspicious Device, Accidents Snarl Morning Commute
From Staff Reports
Tuesday, August 17, 1999; 1:29 p.m. EDT
D.C. police evacuated the Crowne Plaza Hotel and
closed several downtown blocks for most of the
morning rush hour to detonate a suspicious suitcase
found in an alley behind the hotel.
The case didn't explode after being doused with water cannons by bomb experts. Police now
say it might have been a torch and other material used for construction.
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U.S. Capitol Police responded about 9:40 a.m. yesterday to a call about an injured person and
noxious fumes in the Dirksen Senate Office Building's north cafeteria. A hazardous-materials
team, an advanced life-support unit, doctors, four teams of paramedics and D.C. Fire Chief
Donald Edwards soon followed. First Street NE was closed to traffic between Constitution
Avenue and C Street.
"The haz-mat unit went down, and all the readings were negative," Reid said. "What they found
was a bag of onions . . . and they just gave off a strong odor."
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[This message has been edited by dZ (edited August 17, 1999).]
Suspicious Device, Accidents Snarl Morning Commute
From Staff Reports
Tuesday, August 17, 1999; 1:29 p.m. EDT
D.C. police evacuated the Crowne Plaza Hotel and
closed several downtown blocks for most of the
morning rush hour to detonate a suspicious suitcase
found in an alley behind the hotel.
The case didn't explode after being doused with water cannons by bomb experts. Police now
say it might have been a torch and other material used for construction.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-08/17/115l-081799-idx.html
U.S. Capitol Police responded about 9:40 a.m. yesterday to a call about an injured person and
noxious fumes in the Dirksen Senate Office Building's north cafeteria. A hazardous-materials
team, an advanced life-support unit, doctors, four teams of paramedics and D.C. Fire Chief
Donald Edwards soon followed. First Street NE was closed to traffic between Constitution
Avenue and C Street.
"The haz-mat unit went down, and all the readings were negative," Reid said. "What they found
was a bag of onions . . . and they just gave off a strong odor."
]
[This message has been edited by dZ (edited August 17, 1999).]