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Thursday, November 19, 2009
For Immediate Release
Fire & Rescue

Contact: Tim Szymanski
Telephone: 303-2993

 

Suspicious Package Causes Evacuation At Meadows Mall

 

Incident number:  9270645            Date:  Nov. 19, 2009            Time of call: 8:53 a.m.

Type of call:  Suspicious Package

Correct address:  4300 Meadows Lane                           CLV Ward:  1

Name:  Meadows Mall                                                           Parcel:  139-31-510-019
                                
Zip:   89107                        District/Phantom: 2422-34                   Number of alarms:  One

Building type: Retail Shopping – Mall         Number of stories: Two         Units:  

Size: Unknown                          When built:  1977   
                           
Construction type: Concrete-steel          Smoke alarms: Yes            Sprinklers:  Yes        

Number of occupants:  Adults:  None          Teens (18-13): None        Children: None

Any injuries: No              How many : None         Type: 
 
Damage estimate: None 
                       
Description of damage:  None

Cause of incident:  Accidental

American Red Cross: No     Pets:  N/A        Status of pets: 
  
General information about the incident:   A suspicious package (like a lunchbox) was found outside in the mall area just after 8:30 a.m.  No one was with it so it appeared suspicious and security called 9-1-1. The mall was evacuated entirely. The bomb squad responded along with Metro Police and determined it was actually a lunch box of an employee who works in the mall.  They claimed it was their lunch box during the incident, but as a precaution, the bomb squad made sure it was an actual lunch box, which it was.  People were able to return inside the mall just after 10 a.m.

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