TSA: Hazardous Material Shuts Bakersfield Airport (Calif)

[Kadie]

Jan 5, 2010 9:59 am US/Pacific
TSA: Hazardous Material Shuts Bakersfield Airport

BAKERSFIELD (AP) ― Federal officials have suspended flights going to and from the Bakersfield airport after a hazardous material was found in luggage there.

The material was found in a checked bag Tuesday morning at Meadows Field, said Suzanne Trevino, spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration.

The discovery closed down the airport around 8:20 a.m., and officials called in a hazardous material crew. A bomb squad also was called to the airport as a precaution, Trevino said.

Trevino wouldn't say what exactly was found in the bag.

"It sounds like, at this point, it's a hazmat issue; it's not terrorist-related or anything like that," she said. "It's not a bomb."

Bakersfield Fire Chief Nick Dunn said the material was in a bottle that released fumes. Two TSA officers who were exposed to the fumes were taken to the hospital for evaluation, officials said.

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http://cbs13.com/local/bakersfield.airport.hazardous.2.1406294.html

[marmar]

1. Le Cirque de Terreur

[MineralMan]

2. Well, the Bakersfield airport is pretty small, so it wouldn't take

much to clear it. There's no there there.

A huge total of 9 commercial departures per day, along with general aviation. Served by United and US Airways feeder airlines. Not much to it.

Airport code: BFL

[DJ13]

3. Reports say both passengers were upset at the delay

[Brother Buzz]

4. You bad!

:spank:

:rofl:

[Kadie]

5. LOL

:rofl:

[Brother Buzz]

6. Bottles of honey cause Calif. airport shutdown

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Authorities say the suspicious material inside luggage that prompted the shutdown of a California airport turns out to be five soft drink bottles filled with honey.

Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood says the bottles, found inside a checked bag at Bakersfield's Meadows Field, had tested positive for traces of an explosive.

Youngblood says investigators are trying to determine whether there was something in the honey or on the bag that caused security alarms to go off shortly before 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.

They have been questioning the bag's owner, 31-year-old Francisco Ramirez, a gardener from Milwaukee who says he flew to Bakersfield to spend Christmas with his sister.

The discovery of the suspicious material halted flights to and from the airport. Two security officers reported feeling ill after being exposed to the bottles.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6799931.html

Bees visit fields that have been fertilized with nitrogen and explosives contain large amounts of nitrogen, no?