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SWAT On Fry
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:42 pm
by Stan Austin
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
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:47 pm
by Stan Austin
The call has just gone out by Officer Fiorilli to have the Westshore SWAT members respond at 1800 hours.
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:57 pm
by Stan Austin
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.
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:29 pm
by Stan Austin
O'Bryan and Lay are imbedded at an observation point behing the house in question.
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:33 pm
by DougHuntingdon
What is the address of the house in question?
Doug
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:39 pm
by Stan Austin
Doug-- That info not available at the moment. Stan
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:56 pm
by DougHuntingdon
Ok. I hope no one innocent gets harmed. Thanks to you, Jim, and David for on the spot reporting.
Doug
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:08 pm
by Stan Austin
Further update: Beach Avenue has been evacuated. O'Bryan reports that the SWAT response vehicle is on location.
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:14 pm
by Stan Austin
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."
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:43 pm
by David Lay
Just got back from the scene -- photos coming shortly.
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:56 pm
by DougHuntingdon
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
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:14 pm
by David Lay
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:29 pm
by David Lay
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:16 pm
by David Lay
DougHuntingdon wrote:What is the address of the house in question?
Doug
Doug: The house is at 1325 Fry.
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:38 pm
by Jim O'Bryan
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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