19 April 2013 (23:59 UTC-07 Tango 18 April 2013)/08 Jumada t-Tania 1434/30 Farvardin 1391/10 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Reports that multiple cities deploying bomb disposal units. FBI agents now armed with rifles. Helicopters arrived. More cops arriving on foot, heading towards Arsenal Mall.
CBS affiliate read police press release that says situation is rapidly expanding. MIT cop sniped, Watertown robberies/gun battles/explosions, now police being deployed to Cambridge!
19 April 2013 (23:51 UTC-07 Tango 18 April 2013)/08 Jumada t-Tania 1434/30 Farvardin 1391/10 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
CBS affiliate reports one suspect still on the loose.
Live reporters saying police will not let them leave their media trucks. Told they would be safe if they stayed by their live vans.
The CBS affiliate in Boston reporting the National Guard has been deployed to Watertown, but I think they might be confusing the Metro SWAT units as Guard units.
19 April 2013 (23:42 UTC-07 Tango 18 April 2013)/08 Jumada t-Tania 1434/30 Farvardin 1391/10 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Federal agents arriving, more bomb disposal squads arriving. Police continue pushing live media back. Media has been pushed back so far they can not see what’s going on.
19 April 2013 (23:37 UTC-07 Tango 18 April 2013)/08 Jumada t-Tania 1434/30 Farvardin 1391/10 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Another explosion reported by live reporter, pointing out that bomb disposal team is present.
Video shows white male on ground and cops backing away from him. Suspect wearing ‘FBI’ type jacket with a logo on the back, and jogging pants, with khaki shoes similar to those seen on Academi/Blackwater mercenaries.
Apparently no more gunshots heard. Ambulance leaving scene.
19 April 2013 (23:17 UTC-07 Tango 18 April 2013)/08 Jumada t-Tania 1434/30 Farvardin 1391/10 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Report that an armored fighting vehicle and heavily armed Metro SWAT type cops have begun paroling down street were gun battle and explosion took place.
SWAT teams running down other streets.
19 April 2013 (23:12 UTC-07 Tango 18 April 2013)/08 Jumada t-Tania 1434/30 Farvardin 1391/10 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Police evacuating neighborhood. It’s after 01:00 UTC-5 Romeo, in Massachusetts. Ambulances and Fire Engines arrive. Resident says several explosions, also says was told by a cop that a policeman was shot and killed.
Might be over, police are now putting up ‘police tape’.
19 April 2013 (23:04 UTC-07 Tango 18 April 2013)/08 Jumada t-Tania 1434/30 Farvardin 1391/10 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Live reporter ended report after saying cops had suspect at gunpoint, then in a panicked voice he said all the cops were hurriedly backing away, some started running.
Police started telling people to run, suspect has hand grenade!
Now reports of explosion!
19 April 2013 (23:00 UTC-07 Tango 18 April 2013)/08 Jumada t-Tania 1434/30 Farvardin 1391/10 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Live reporter was tracking reports of multiple robberies and then gunshots in Watertown, Massachusetts, but as they arrived at a scene of several dozen cop cars more gunshots rangout.
NBC affiliate Reporter said at first a cop told him “we got ’em”, but then more gunshots. Reporter says he and his crew are trapped for fear of getting hit by bullets.
Police running around residential neighborhood, apparently searching for suspects. Photog says he saw smoke down one street, before police forced him back.
Watertown is a few miles from the MIT sniper incident. However, a cop said he did not think the two incidents are related.
19 April 2013 (22:46 UTC-07 Tango 18 April 2013)/08 Jumada t-Tania 1434/30 Farvardin 1391/10 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Reports out of Boston, Massachusetts, a MIT police officer has been sniped and killed.
Police are searching for sniper. It happened near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Strata Center. Students have been told to stay indoors.
19 April 2013 (19:26 UTC-07 Tango 18 April 2013)/08 Jumada t-Tania 1434/30 Farvardin 1391/10 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
The Texas Commercial Fertilizer Control Act requires fertilizer factories to store various chemicals and other ingredients separately, and in a way to prevent fires.
A CBS affiliate in Dallas talked to the owner of the factory that exploded in West. He stated that the plant was shut down for the night and all employees were “off duty”, in other words, nobody was supposed to be there.
The same CBS affiliate also talked to other fertilizer factory owners throughout Texas, and they told the reporter that the only way such a big fire and explosion could happen is that certain ingredients come into contact with each other, which is exactly what the Texas Commercial Fertilizer Control Act intends to prevent.
There needs to be the right combo of ammonia nitrate, oxygen and a fuel. That fuel could be diesel or even water. If large amounts of ammonium nitrate powder, or fumes, get airborne (meaning it mixes with oxygen) you get the ingredients for a fuel air bomb (this actually used to happen a lot in grain silos, before they figured out what was going on, that’s where the idea for fuel air bombs came from). It was suggested the attempts by the first responders to put out the fire with water, actually made it worse. It’s possible the first responders thought it was a simple fire.
So something happened to cause the creation of a fuel air bomb situation at the West, Texas fertilizer plant. CBS Dallas reporter, Ginger Allen, said she found emails within the fertilizer industry, warning members to increase security and reassess their crisis plans.