RE: [ME] Florida and Bioterror

["Mike Baker" <mybaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The same scenario is playing out here in Austrailia.  Over the weekend there
were 4 false alarms
in Sydney. All involved a mysterious white powder on mail.  In one a post
box on the side of the road got a good high pressure hosing out by the Fire
Brigade.
Even the gas mask thing took off over here with local suppliers flooded with
requests.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Benson [mailto:e_r_benson@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 15 October 2001 12:37 AM
To: millenniums-end-l@firedrake.org
Subject: Re: [ME] Florida and Bioterror


Well, a side effect of the attention the press has given the incidents is
the number of spurious cases has gone up exponentially.  I live in Delaware,
the second smallest state in the US.  Hazmat calls are pretty uncommon.  On
Friday night, there were five Hazmat (Hazardous Materials) cases, three
simultaneously.  One case was still being investigated, the other four were
false alerts.  People are so paranoid now that *anything* remotely
resembling a problem gets a call.  That puts a tremendous drain on the
system.

-Eric


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