{"id":1305,"date":"2009-04-30T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2009-05-06T08:37:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T16:37:48","slug":"white-powder-haz-mat-scare-at-a-long-beach-office-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"White Powder Haz Mat Scare At A Long Beach Office Building"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>On the afternoon of April 30, 2009, Long Beach Fire Department units responded to a 7-story office building located at 3800 Kilroy Airport Way.\u00a0 Office workers on the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> floor found what they described as a white powder on a chair and floor of a conference room.\u00a0 They also described a very foul odor in the area of the substance.\u00a0 The 60 workers on the effected floor were evacuated and the Long Beach Fire Department \u00a0Hazardous Materials team was called in to identify the substance.\u00a0 Entry to the area was denied to all but the specially trained and equipped Haz Mat members.\u00a0 Law enforcement agencies spoke with witnesses in an effort to determine if there was a credible threat or an intentional crime.\u00a0 A small sample of the material was brought to a secured, outside area where city health\/haz mat personnel tested it.\u00a0 Fortunately, the substance was determined to be non-hazardous.\u00a0 In situations such as this, every precaution is taken to ensure the safety of the public, our members and other assisting agencies.\u00a0 There were no injuries reported to citizens or to first responders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the afternoon of April 30, 2009, Long Beach Fire Department units responded to a 7-story office building located at 3800 Kilroy Airport Way.\u00a0 Office workers on the 3rd floor found what they described as a white powder on a chair and floor of a conference room.\u00a0 They also described a very foul odor in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}