SWAT On Fry

Stan Austin · Post by **Stan Austin** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:42 pm

Lakewood Observer ON the Scene-----

Fry Avenue between Detroit and Clifton is closed and residents are being evacuated.
A disturbed individual has barricaded himself in a house with a tank of propane and a tank of oxygen and is threatening to ignite them.
This explosive mixture has caused the SWAT team, Lakewood Fire Department to respond.
The Mayor is on site and closely monitoring first responder activities.
TV cameras are on scene so look for reports.

Exclusive from scanner monitoring and on site observations.

Stan Austin

Stan Austin · Post by **Stan Austin** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:47 pm

The call has just gone out by Officer Fiorilli to have the Westshore SWAT members respond at 1800 hours.

Stan Austin · Post by **Stan Austin** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:57 pm

Lakewood CERT called into service---------

The Lakewood CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) under the volunteer command of Richard Healy has been called into service in this situation.
CERT volunteers have been enlisted to help evacuate and escort residents on Fry Avenue to the City Hall Auditorium.

Stan Austin · Post by **Stan Austin** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:29 pm

O'Bryan and Lay are imbedded at an observation point behing the house in question.

DougHuntingdon · Post by **DougHuntingdon** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:33 pm

What is the address of the house in question?

Doug

Stan Austin · Post by **Stan Austin** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:39 pm

Doug-- That info not available at the moment. Stan

DougHuntingdon · Post by **DougHuntingdon** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:56 pm

Ok. I hope no one innocent gets harmed. Thanks to you, Jim, and David for on the spot reporting.

Doug

Stan Austin · Post by **Stan Austin** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:08 pm

Further update: Beach Avenue has been evacuated. O'Bryan reports that the SWAT response vehicle is on location.

Stan Austin · Post by **Stan Austin** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:14 pm

Lakewood Sgt. Spazial as qoutoed to Channel 5 News ,"We're going to wait this one out. We're talking to him by cellfphone now."

David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:43 pm

Just got back from the scene -- photos coming shortly.

DougHuntingdon · Post by **DougHuntingdon** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:56 pm

Great work, David. here is channel 5 link for any who may be interested (also includes pictures)

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/10802472/detail.html

Doug

David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:14 pm

More photos are in my Flickr, and will be in my Photoblog shortly.

David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:29 pm

Photoblog is up:

http://lakewoodobserver.com/photoblogs/david-lay/swat-on-fry

David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:16 pm

DougHuntingdon wrote:What is the address of the house in question?

Doug

Doug: The house is at 1325 Fry.

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:38 pm

After being placed behind lines, David and I took to some alleys I knew from the Alley Rally(August 16th this year). Crawling under some wires, and cutting through some bushes we found ourselves one house away from the hostage house.

You can see SWAT members in the driveway next to the house.

As we backed out of the fire zone, you can see two more SWAT snipers directly to our left.

A woman came up with a Boxer, and we had to compromise our position to warn the woman. We still stayed near her apartment about 50 yards from the house until Lakewood CERT group warned us of the dangers and asked us to move on or to the pizza party at City Hall.

David and I thanked them for the pizza offer but decided to watch the news bunnies build the Lakewood brand.

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