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Homeland Security Daily Open Source Infrastructure

Report for 14 August 2009

Current Nationwide Threat Level

ELEVATED

Significant Risk of Terrorist Attacks

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Top Stories

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that two men from Oklahoma and Texas pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to manufacture and sell oilfield pipe couplings stamped with a certification mark owned and registered by the American Petroleum Institute, without a license or other authorization to do so. (See item 12)

Reuters reports that pirates probably hijacked a 4,000-ton, 98-meter merchant ship which disappeared after sailing through the English Channel last month, its operator said on Wednesday. A hijacking in European waters would be almost unprecedented in modern times. (See item 17)

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• Energy • Banking and Finance

• Chemical • Transportation

• Nuclear Reactors, Materials and Waste • Postal and Shipping

• Critical Manufacturing • Information and Technology

• Defense Industrial Base • Communications

• Dams Sector • Commercial Facilities

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• Agriculture and Food • Government Facilities

• Water Sector • Emergency Services

• Public Health and Healthcare • National Monuments and Icons

Energy Sector

Current Electricity Sector Threat Alert Levels: Physical: ELEVATED, Cyber: ELEVATED Scale: LOW, GUARDED, ELEVATED, HIGH, SEVERE [Source: ISAC for the Electricity Sector (ES-ISAC) - [http://www.esisac.com]

1. August 12, Reuters – (International) Kuwait Qaeda group planned refinery attack. An al Qaeda-linked group arrested in Kuwait planned to attack the OPEC member’s Shuaiba oil refinery, a daily newspaper said on August 12. The group planned to attack the 200,000 barrels per day refinery and the state security building, as

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well as the camp, daily newspaper al-Anbaa reported, citing unidentified sources familiar with the investigation. Kuwait said on August 11 it had foiled a plan by a six-member Qaeda-linked cell to bomb a U.S. army camp and other important facilities, but gave no further details. An interior ministry statement said all six members of the al Qaeda-linked cell had confessed after being arrested. Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLC44036120090812

2. August 12, KFDM 6 Beaumont – (Texas) Power outage prompts Total to evacuate some employees. A power outage at the Total Refinery in Port Arthur prompted the company to evacuate some contract workers as a precaution, according to information KFDM News has received from an administrative manager for Total. She said the company is investigating to determine why the electricity went out to some parts of the plant at about 10:45 a.m. on August 12. Power has since been restored and refinery operations are returning to normal. She told KFDM News there was no fire or explosion and no injuries, but the company evacuated some employees as a precaution while it looks into the cause of the outage. Source: http://www.kfdm.com/articles/total-33478-outage-evacuate.html

3. August 12, United Press International – (International) Locals attack Nigerian pipeline. Local militants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria attacked a gas pipeline operated by Royal Dutch Shell as critics blast a recent cease-fire agreement. A spokesman for the Nigerian Joint Task Force (NJTF) said the attack was carried out by local militants in the region, the Wall Street Journal reports. He blamed “aggrieved” locals for the attack, not organized militias who reached a cease-fire agreement earlier in the year. Militants with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) launched a series of attacks on oil facilities operated by Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell during the summer, declaring war on the national energy sector in an effort to gain access to oil revenue. MEND declared a cease-fire July 15 following a government amnesty effort. Critics complain the cease-fire will do little to allay concerns about the disparity in oil wealth, however. The NJTF spokesman said Royal Dutch Shell shut the pipeline down to control the damage during the weekend. Source: http://www.upi.com/Energy_Resources/2009/08/12/Locals-attack-Nigerian-pipeline/UPI-30901250102052/

4. August 12, WSAZ 3 Huntington – (West Virginia) Workers exposed to weak ammonia solution at power plant. About a dozen workers at the AEP Mountaineer Power Plant in Mason County were exposed to a weak solution of ammonia and water during the afternoon of August 12, a spokesperson with Appalachian Power says. He told WSAZ.com that about a dozen contract workers were testing a pump at the plant in New Haven and apparently left a valve open. When the pump was turned on, a weak solution of ammonia and water sprayed all of the workers in the area. Most of the workers were showered off with water and showed no signs of injuries, but 2 to 3 workers were taken to the hospital as a precaution, according to the spokesman. Mason County 911 dispatchers said that they were initially called to respond to the plant, but the plant later called them to cancel emergency responders because the incident was not

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as big as they first thought. Source: http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/53057072.html

5. August 11, PhillyBurbs.com – (New Jersey) Worker burned at substation. A Jersey Central Power & Light employee was badly burned on August 10 at a utility substation, according to emergency officials. The worker, whose identity was not released, suffered serious burns while working on electrical fixtures at the Cookstown-New Egypt Road substation, said a captain with the Plumsted Township Fire District and New Egypt Emergency Squad. The fire district and emergency squad are based in nearby Plumsted, Ocean County, and were among the first responders to the incident. Exactly how the worker was shocked or burned was not available. A utility spokesman confirmed that an employee was injured while making repairs but would not specify what occurred. The incident caused about 19,000 customers in North Hanover, New Hanover, Springfield, Pemberton Township and Plumsted, to lose power for more than an hour, the spokesman said. Source: http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/28/2009/august/11/worker-burned-at-substation.html

For another story, see item 45

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Chemical Industry Sector

6. August 13, Industrial Info – (National) Extension of chemical plant security standards approved. Chemical plant owners in the United States can expect to meet the same standards for plant-site security for at least another year. The chemical facility anti-terrorism standards program was going to expire in October, but the House and the Senate have recently funded a bill for the Department of Homeland Security to extend the standards another 12 months. Most plant owners within the Chemical Processing Industry are relieved these standards have been extended in the existing format and do not carry any additional requirements for inherently safer technologies. Source: http://www.industrialinfo.com/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=149302

7. August 12, WJHL 11 Johnson City – (Tennessee) Eastman chemical spill in Holston River. There was another chemical spill at Eastman Chemical Company on August 12. Eastman officials say there was a brief accidental discharge in the South Fork Holston River due to the over-pressurization of a process reactor. The spill was a mixture of diethyl ether, the same type of spill that occurred on July 28, 2009, and tetraethyl pyrophosphate. Representatives from Department of Environment and Conservation’s Johnson City field office conducted a site investigation. Eastman reports no employees were injured but approximately one dozen fish were killed. Eastman does not expect this release to have any further adverse impact on the South Fork Holston River. A team is investigating the incident. Source:

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http://www2.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/eastman_chemical_spill_in_holston_river/30480/

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Nuclear Reactors, Materials and Waste Sector

8. August 13, Vermont Press Bureau – (Vermont) Vermont Yankee NRC: Dry cask test was eliminated. The concrete-and-steel “dry casks” used at the Vermont Yankee plant to store spent nuclear fuel were not tested as completely as they should have been, according to federal regulators. But the decision by Holtec International, the New Jersey company that built the casks, to omit one set of tests does not pose a safety risk because there were other kinds of inspections done on those casks, and the waste stored in the casks is not as hot as allowed, meaning they are safe even though they were not tested with pressurized helium as required under a federal licensing agreement, Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials said Wednesday. About 109 of the casks that were not completely tested are in use nationwide, including five at Vermont Yankee, regulators say. “The violation is a concern” because the canister “is relied upon to prevent the release of radioactive material,” according to a letter from the NRC to Holtec. “It is also relied upon to maintain an inert environment and sufficient helium pressure to keep cladding temperatures below the acceptable limit.” Source: http://www.timesargus.com/article/20090813/NEWS02/908130358/0/OPINION02

9. August 13, Middletown Times Herald Record – (New York) NRC report says Indian Point safe. The Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan is safe enough to function for at least another two decades, according to a final report issued by the NRC Wednesday. The federal agency’s Safety Evaluation Report examined the plant’s aging management program and its license renewal application, which, if approved, would keep the site running through 2035. Officials with Entergy Nuclear, the company that owns and operates Indian Point, called the technical thumbs-up an important milestone for its two reactors, which began operating in 1973 and 1975. “It demonstrates that Entergy met all of its obligations to ensure that the plant can operate safely for another 20 years,” said a company spokesman. The 932-page report examined pipe corrosion, metal fatigue and other systems inside the reactors. The final review also included satisfactory conclusions to 20 “open items,” or sticking points from NRC’s draft study. Those topics included fire protection, pump failures and potentially hazardous leaks. Source: http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090813/NEWS/908130319/-1/NEWS

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Critical Manufacturing Sector

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10. August 13, WTAP 5 Parkersburg – (Ohio) Employee treated and released after explosion. The Washington County Sheriff says a 51-year-old man of Belpre was taken to Marietta Memorial Hospital after an explosion on August 13 at Eramet Marietta on Ohio State Route 7. Hospital officials say the man was treated and released. An Eramet spokesperson says an internal investigation is already underway at the plant to determine the cause of the accident, and make sure it does not happen again. She says an employee was driving a vehicle hauling a large warm bowl-shaped piece of solidified metal. The bowl of metal dropped from the vehicle and made contact with water on the ground. This caused an explosion. Source: http://www.wtap.com/news/headlines/53116577.html

11. August 12, Associated Press – (International) Gunmen fire on U.S. miner Freeport bus in Indonesia. Gunmen fired on a bus that had just dropped off employees working for U.S. company Freeport at the world’s biggest gold mine on August 12, a company spokesman said. No one was hurt in the attack in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province, the spokesman said, adding that “to ensure the safety of our employees and families, we have temporarily closed (part of) the road.” Police previously arrested nine suspects, all facing charges of premeditated murder and illegal weapons possession, for a spate of ambushes near the mine that have left three dead since July 8. Two Freeport employees were among those detained by police. Papua, a remote and underdeveloped region, is home to a low-level insurgency seeking independence from the government thousands of miles away in the capital, Jakarta. It is unclear if the rebels, who have been implicated in attacks in the past, were involved in the latest shootings. Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090812/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_freeport_shooting

12. August 12, U.S. Department of Justice – (National) Two defendants plead guilty in counterfeit pipe coupling scheme. Two men from Oklahoma and Texas pleaded guilty on August 12 to conspiring to manufacture and sell counterfeit pipe couplings. They pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and commit fraud. They each face up to five years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for November 5, 2009. In their plea agreements, the two men admitted that they conspired with another co-defendant in a counterfeiting scheme to manufacture and sell oilfield pipe couplings stamped with a certification mark owned and registered by the American Petroleum Institute (API), without a license or other authorization to do so. API’s certification program is a quality-control program designed to insure against injury and catastrophic loss from substandard, unsafe products. The API monogram certifies that products and equipment used in the exploration and production of petroleum and natural gas meet certain API standards, specifications and recommended practices. Couplings that do not meet the API standards are sold for limited service applications at substantially lower prices than API-certified products. Only manufacturers licensed by API after meeting strict quality control standards, and who are subject to continued monitoring by API, are authorized to manufacture and sell products containing an API certification mark. According to the plea agreement, they acknowledged that they not only manufactured and sold couplings containing an API certification mark without a license, but profited at the expense of customers by

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manufacturing many of those couplings using substandard materials. Source: http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/August/09-crm-792.html

For another story, see item 28

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Defense Industrial Base Sector

13. August 13, Santa Cruz Sentinel – (California) Lockheed fire at 1,000 acres; Evacuations ordered, 250 structures threatened. Flames leaped into the night sky above the ridges of the Santa Cruz Mountains on August 12 as a wildland fire burned out of control in the rugged hills between the end of Empire Grade Road and Swanton. The Lockheed Fire burned in heavily wooded terrain as winds howled through the canyons, whipping the fire through the dry vegetation under the cool night air. At 1 a.m., Cal Fire said the out-of-control fire had consumed 1,900 acres and was growing, but at 3 a.m. they said the earlier number was wrong and put the size back at 1,000 acres. At least four strike teams were called in; the last was sent to Big Creek Lumber for structure protection. Minutes earlier, mandatory evacuations were ordered for the entire Swanton area of about 600 residents, and 250 structures were threatened. Cal Fire crews are using the nearby Lockheed Martin Space Systems campus as one command center as they strategize how to reach the fire. At least two dozen fire trucks and construction equipment was staging at the parking lot of the Lockheed Martin facility. A stream of fire trucks and dozers were making their way up Empire Grade Road around 10 p.m. to stage at Lockheed. The fire is not near the facility but on a ridge toward the coast. Lockheed Martin is 3,700 acres with defensible space around it. A Lockheed safety official was not sure if the facility was in the direct path of the fire. On Empire Grade Road, residents and others were preparing for the blaze. A guard at the Lockheed facility said she has been ordered to let all fire crews inside the gates and to expect them in all night. Source: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_13047312?source=most_emailed

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Banking and Finance Sector

14. August 12, U.S. Department of Justice – (International) North Miami Beach resident arrested in foreign currency investment scheme. The acting United States attorney for the southern district of Florida and the acting special agent in charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announced on August 12 that a North Miami Beach resident was arrested earlier on August 12 on mail and wire fraud charges arising from an investment fraud scheme in which more than 100 investors lost approximately $4,000,000. The suspect is currently being held without bond. A pre-trial detention hearing is scheduled for August 14 before the duty Magistrate Judge. As alleged in the Indictment, from January 2002 through November 2004, the suspect defrauded investors by soliciting investments for the purported purpose of trading

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foreign currencies in the international foreign exchange market. The suspect caused investors to believe that, based on his alleged extensive experience trading foreign currencies, he would trade foreign currencies on the investors’ behalf in return for a share of the profits generated by his trading activities. Investors were led to believe that the suspect was generating positive monthly returns trading foreign currencies each and every month during the course of the scheme. In fact, during most of the scheme’s existence, the suspect did not even attempt to trade foreign currencies, and, when he did attempt to do so, he lost significant amounts of investors’ money. As the Indictment alleges, the suspect used most of the investors’ money for his own personal benefit and to make payments in Ponzi scheme fashion to investors who occasionally sought to redeem some of the money that they had invested with him and his various corporate entities. Source: http://miami.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/mm081209.htm

15. August 11, Detroit Free Press – (Michigan) No explosives in packages at Macomb credit unions. Authorities have determined that two suspicious packages left outside credit unions in Eastpointe and Warren on August 11 are not explosives and people who were evacuated because of the incidents have been able to return to their locations, police in both cities said. The package at Peoples Trust Credit Union, 30800 Van Dyke, in Warren contained a travel mug and shirt wrapped in plastic, police said. The package did not appear to contain death threats against police officers once officers were able to read a note with the items, police said. In Eastpointe, the suspicious briefcase-type bag left outside Michigan First Credit Union at Gratiot and Toepfer is believed to be a service call box left by an electrician or someone doing work in the area, police said. It does not appear the two incidents are connected, Eastpointe police said. Warren police evacuated between 50 and 60 people from Peoples Trust Credit Union, just south of 13 Mile, and the Fifth-Third Bank next door. Eastpointe police also evacuated the area around Michigan First Credit Union. Source: http://www.freep.com/article/20090811/NEWS04/90811033/1006/NEWS/No-explosives-in-packages-at-Macomb-credit-unions

16. August 10, American Chronicle – (National) Internet gambling payment processor charged with bank fraud, money laundering. The acting U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York and the assistant director-in-charge of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced on August 10 the filing of an indictment charging a suspect with bank fraud and other offenses stemming from his role in processing more than $350 million for Internet gambling companies. Since at least 2007 through June 2009, the suspect opened a number of bank accounts in the United States under various corporate names, such as KJB Financial Corporation, Account Services Corporation and Check Payment Financial Co. In opening the accounts, he and his co-conspirators falsely represented that the accounts would be used for such purposes as issuing rebate checks, refund checks, sponsorship checks, affiliate checks and minor payroll processing. In fact, the suspect and his co-conspirators used the accounts to receive funds from offshore Internet gambling companies that offered, variously, poker, blackjack, slots and other casino games. The suspect and his co-conspirators then disbursed those funds via checks to U.S. residents

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seeking to cash out their gambling winnings. The suspect and his co-conspirators provided false and misleading information to U.S. banks about the purpose of the accounts because the banks would not have processed the transactions had they known they were gambling-related. In total, the suspect and his co-conspirators processed more than $350 million transferred from a Cyprus bank account to various U.S. bank accounts for this purpose. The suspect is charged with one count each of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to engage in money laundering and conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business. Source: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/113778

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Transportation Sector

17. August 13, Reuters – (International) Mystery deepens over disappearing merchant ship. Pirates probably hijacked a merchant ship which disappeared after sailing through the English Channel last month, its operator said on August 12. The Kremlin has ordered Russian warships to join the hunt for the 4,000-ton, 98-meter bulk carrier Arctic Sea, whose mysterious fate has baffled national maritime authorities across Europe and North Africa. The Maltese-registered vessel, carrying a cargo of timber worth $1.3 million, was supposed to have docked on August 4 in the Algerian port of Bejaia. It never arrived, raising fears of a rare case of piracy in northern European seas. “My view is that it is most likely that the vessel has been hijacked,” the director of the Finnish company Solchart, which operates the vessel, told Reuters. “It is unclear where the vessel is now.” A wave of piracy has hit shipping off Somalia, and an international naval force patrols its coast in an effort to protect merchant vessels. But a hijacking in European waters would be almost unprecedented in modern times. “If this is piracy, and it seems most likely of all that it is, then it is one of the first cases in recent history of piracy in these seas,” he said. Concerns over the safety of the 15-member Russian crew were raised after the Malta Maritime Authority said it received reports the ship had been boarded by armed men in masks posing as anti-drugs police in Swedish waters on July 24. Swedish authorities said none of its law enforcement agencies had been involved. An editor of Russia’s respected Sovfracht maritime journal, said that the ship may have been carrying a secret cargo unknown to the vessel’s owners or operators. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE57C17T20090813

18. August 13, Knoxville News-Sentinel – (Tennessee) NS train cars derail at TVA’s Kingston ash-spill site; no injuries. A road was reopened Thursday morning after two empty rail cars derailed near Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Kingston Fossil Plant ash-spill site Wednesday night. Swan Pond Road reopened about 5:40 a.m., TVA said in a statement. No one was injured when the cars derailed, and emergency officials were notified. The rail cars, belonging to Norfolk Southern Railroad, were being moved into position to be ready for loading ash on Thursday, according to TVA. Preliminary results indicate operator error while reversing the direction of the train, according to

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TVA. Source: http://www.ble.org/pr/news/headline.asp?id=27240

19. August 12, Aviation Web – (New York) Calls intensify for closing of Hudson VFR corridor. The horrific midair accident above the Hudson River August 8 that killed nine people in a Piper Saratoga and a Europcopter AS350 helicopter has prompted calls from officials across the Northeast to impose stricter restrictions on the VFR corridor through New York City’s congested airspace. On August 11, 15 members of Congress sent a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator comparing the lack of regulation to the “Wild West” and saying “we should seriously consider banning all flights below 1,100 feet until radar systems are available to track them.” The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) said this week the media attention following the accident has been misplaced. “The characterization of the airspace as devoid of regulation is inaccurate,” said NATA in a news release. “The airspace being referred to as ‘uncontrolled’ only indicates that there is no active radar-based control of flights. Operations in this airspace are still subject to numerous regulatory requirements.” The NATA president added: “Until the NTSB releases their findings, I believe it is imperative that we follow the advice of [the mayor of New York] and avoid unnecessary speculation.” The letter from Congress suggested that all aircraft in the corridor should be required to file flight plans, and “at a minimum, the FAA must require the installation of the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS-II), and a Mode C Transponder, on all aircraft that seat less than 10 people.” The group called for the FAA to act not only to regulate the Hudson River corridor, but “to provide greater oversight of small aircraft operations throughout the country.” Source: http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/CallsIntensifyForClosingOfHudsonVFRCorridor_200990-1.html

20. August 12, NetworkWorld – (International) Study: Air cargo security seriously lacking. There are serious security problems in international air cargo transportation and the controls around it, according to a report released this week by the International Transfer Center for Logistics and the Technische Universitat of Berlin. The research, which was commissioned by the World Cargo Center GmbH in Frankfurt, surveyed third-party distribution companies and freight handlers that provide supply chain services about their security controls and perception of security risk. The report claims a lack of standardized regulations in air and freight security are driving many of the problems, and 56 percent of companies surveyed said the lack of consistency in this area is their biggest security challenge. A lack of security awareness among staff was cited by 61 percent of freight handlers as a problem. Technology and buildings were also named as areas of weakness: 24 percent of service providers and 39 percent of freight handlers consider the surveillance technology in air freight centers to be inadequate. Additionally, 28 percent of companies and 56 percent of freight handlers criticized the entrance controls to freight centers. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/081209-study-air-cargo-security-seriously.html

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For another story, see item 3

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Postal and Shipping Sector

21. August 13, IT Pro – (International) UPS forced to encrypt devices after data breach. UPS, the parcel service and global transportation business, has encrypted all of its British laptops and smartphones after it breached the Data Protection Act last year. It has also signed an ‘undertaking’ with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), promising that it will keep personal information more securely. It comes less than a year after an incident where an unencrypted password-protected laptop was stolen from a UPS employee while abroad. It was never recovered. It contained the payroll information of around 9,000 British UPS employees, together with confidential data including names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers, salary and bank details. Source: http://www.itpro.co.uk/613882/ups-forced-to-encrypt-devices-after-data-breach

22. August 13, WBRZ 2 Baton Rouge – (Louisiana) Suspect accused of hoax bombs tries to block retrial. A man who mailed more than 200 hoax bomb threats and anthrax letters after the September 11th attacks is seeking to block federal prosecutors from bringing him back to trial after an appeals court threw out his conviction earlier this year when they ruled that the trial judge improperly stopped the suspect from arguing insanity. The suspect’s attorney argues in court filings that prosecutors waited too long to retry the case, missing the mandated 70-day “speedy trial” time limit. A hearing on the issue is set for Friday. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in April overturned the suspect’s conviction and 30-year prison sentence for mailing the threatening letters, many filled with baby powder that recipients feared was anthrax. The threat letters were mailed to government offices, doctors, prominent community members, law enforcement agencies, media outlets and businesses throughout south Louisiana. Source: http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/suburban/53089402.html

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Agriculture and Food Sector

23. August 13, KXTV 10 Sacramento – (California) Ammonia leak forces Lathrop plant evacuation. Employees of a Lathrop, California meat packer were evacuated after an ammonia leak that occurred at approximately 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning. About 65 employees of the Swiss America Sausage Company on Darcy Parkway were affected, said emergency responders. There were no reports of illness or injury. According to Lathrop-Manteca fire officials, a valve on a pipe carrying ammonia became stuck and when an employee tried to repair it, it broke. Employees of nearby businesses were told to shelter in place — meaning stay in their buildings and turn off the air conditioning. A San Joaquin County Emergency Services Hazmat team was on site. Authorities told

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News10 it would take several hours to clear the scene and make sure it was safe for the meat processor workers to return. By 2 p.m., the building was cleared of any danger, though county health officials would still have to authorize the business opening its doors again to workers. Source: http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=65032&catid=2

24. August 13, Democrat and Chronicle – (New York) Ammonia cloud released at Upstate Farms milk plant in city. An anhydrous ammonia release from the Upstate Farms Cooperative Inc. plant in Rochester, New York early Thursday sent two Rochester police officers to the hospital and affected at least one family in the neighborhood. Six people, residing in a house across the street from the plant with windows open, were affected by the ammonia cloud, but they were not transported to the hospital, said the deputy chief of the Rochester Fire Department. There were 25 to 30 people inside the plant at the time of the release, but nobody inside the plant was injured. Several officers and the plant workers were treated at the scene. Residents of the area were not evacuated, but residents in a three-block area received a call from 911. “One of the workers inside the plant was doing some maintenance on the system,” the deputy fire chief said. “He had the system shut down for three hours, and that allowed the anhydrous ammonia to expand and have increased pressure, which activated the release valve. This was a normal operation of the system, however, the cloud that happened in the neighborhood is not (normal).” An investigation has started as to how the cloud of ammonia escaped into the neighborhood. Source: http://rocnow.com/article/local-news/200990813002

25. August 11, Colorado Springs Gazette – (Colorado) OSHA fines Sinton Dairy. Sinton Dairy Foods Co. LLC faces $50,575 in fines after federal worker safety regulators Tuesday cited the company for five willful or serious violations of health and safety rules related to Sinton’s anhydrous ammonia refrigeration system. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited the Colorado Springs-based company for failing to follow an established preventative maintenance program for the system. The company also was cited for violations involving electrical hazards and for violations involving operating procedures and mechanical integrity procedures for the system. The agency said it cites willful violations when employers exhibit plain indifference to or intentional disregard for employee safety and health. It cites serious violations when death or serious physical harm is likely from a hazard about which an employer knew or should have known. Sinton said in a statement Tuesday that it has corrected the violations and “is committed to protecting the health and safety of its employees and it took immediate action following OSHA’s inspection of its facility earlier this year.” Source: http://www.gazette.com/articles/sinton-60015-safety-dairy.html

26. August 11, Associated Press – (California) Ranches ordered evacuated as fire spreads in northern Santa Barbara County. Authorities have ordered the evacuation of 14 ranches near a wildfire in northern Santa Barbara County, California. The order was issued Tuesday, hours after authorities closed nearly 111 square miles of the Los Padres National Forest. A Forest Service spokesman said most of the closed area is

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inaccessible backcountry. He says ranchers are moving their horses and other livestock. The 4-day-old wildfire in the San Rafael Wilderness area of the forest has scorched more than 32 square miles of brushy canyon lands and crested a ridge a few miles from the ranches. More than 1,000 firefighters are battling the blaze. It is 10 percent contained. Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-california-wildfire,0,2049320.story

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Water Sector

27. August 13, Mobile Observer – (New York) National Guard addressing water crisis in Gowanda. Hundreds of questions surely remain for the many Gowanda residents affected by recent flood damage but answers are beginning to surface. Following his press conference and assessment of the damage done in Silver Creek, governor met with local officials at Gowanda Middle School Wednesday evening to brief everyone on the matters at hand. “As everybody knows, the water system here in Gowanda has been severely compromised, and not helped by a fire to one of the homes just a couple of hours ago,” he began. “The local reservoirs have overtopped and have severely reduced the amount of available water that is here. The sewer system has been damaged, the mayor reports that hundreds of homes have been damaged, the police department and municipal buildings have received damage, the Tri-County Hospital has been evacuated and closed as of early Monday morning and it will remain closed for some period of time.” The damages found in Erie and Cattaraugus counties that he eluded to have been roughly estimated at around $19 million, $7 million shy of the federal threshold for disaster relief aid. Despite the rough estimate, he said he believes the $26 million worth of damage required could come from the Gowanda area alone. “The department of transportation, the state police, the department of environmental conservation, the health department, the office of mental health and the Red Cross are all working as hard as they possibly can here,” he said. To aid in water distribution and cleanup duties, the National Guard has been called in. Forty National Guard soldiers and 14 heavy duty pieces of equipment were deployed on Panther Drive in Gowanda early Wednesday afternoon to begin their work. Source: http://www.observertoday.com/page/content.detail/id/527710.html?nav=5047

28. August 13, San Diego Union-Tribune – (California) Company must pay $600,000 for pollution. Regional water pollution cops fined an industrial company $600,000 Wednesday and threatened to nearly double the penalty if the company does not meet deadlines leading up to treatment of a contaminated groundwater plume in El Cajon, California. In February, the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board had proposed a fine of $2.3 million — one of the agency’s largest ever — against Ametek Inc. It said Ametek failed to deal with trichloroethene and other toxins that leaked under the company’s former plant on Greenfield Drive. The board has pushed for mapping and treatment of the chemicals for more than 20 years but has been delayed by legal challenges, bureaucracy and earlier efforts to win compliance without penalties.

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Water regulators expressed hope Wednesday that Ametek will make substantial progress to reduce the largest plume of its kind — about a mile long — in the county. A waste tank had leaked tens of thousands of gallons of pollutants before it was removed, the water board said. The water board lowered its fine after revising the number of days it figured Ametek had violated water-quality laws. The total penalty would top $1 million if Ametek does not meet the terms of the settlement agreement. Ametek owned the 17-acre site, where it operated an aerospace and electronic manufacturing business, from 1968 to 1988. A previous owner had installed a sump for storage of waste materials, and that tank leaked the chemicals. Source: http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/13/company-must-pay-600000-pollution/

29. August 12, Science Daily – (National) High levels of estrogens discovered in some industrial wastewater. In a recent study, civil engineering researchers in the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Technology have discovered that certain industries may be a significant source of plant-based estrogens, called phytoestrogens, in surface water. They also revealed that some of these phytoestrogens can be removed through standard wastewater treatment, but in some cases, the compounds remain at levels that may be damaging to fish. The researchers studied wastewater streams from 19 different industrial sites in Minnesota and Iowa and analyzed them for six phytoestrogens. They found very high concentrations of these hormone-mimicking phytoestrogens, up to 250 times higher than the level at which feminization of fish has been seen in other research, in the wastewater discharged from eight industrial sites, including biodiesel plants, a soy milk factory, a barbecue meat processing facility and a dairy. They also detected high concentrations of phytoestrogens in the water discharged by some municipal wastewater treatment plants. The good news is that the researchers revealed that phytoestrogens can be removed from water as it goes through standard treatment. In fact, they saw more than 90 percent removal of these compounds from the water. Unfortunately, sometimes 99 percent removal is needed to reach levels that are considered harmless to fish. Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810162105.htm

30. August 12, New Jersey Local News Service – (New Jersey) Electrical fire damages Parsippany sewage treatment plant. The township of Parsippany’s wastewater treatment plant is running on an emergency generator after a fire destroyed a key electrical panel on August 12, the facility’s superintendent said. He said the fire burned the main switchgear around 4:30 a.m., but it was quickly extinguished by Parsippany firefighters. Authorities were still investigating the cause of the fire. There were no injuries, police said. Power headed into the South Edwards Road facility from the street must pass through the main switchgear, he said. Plant officials took the panel offline and planned to have more emergency generators running later that day. “There will be no loss in electrical power for normal service,” he said. “We will have absolutely no disruption in service to the township.” He said the damaged switchgear, believed to be more than 35 years old, would likely be replaced rather than repaired. Source: http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2009/08/electrical_fire_damages_parsip.html

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31. August 12, Oregonian – (Oregon) Environmental officials say chemical spill did not harm Lake Oswego waterways. State environmental officials said a chemical spill near Lakeridge High School apparently did not harm Lost Dog Creek or Oswego Lake. Lake Oswego firefighters called the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality after a suspicious foam was spotted early Wednesday in the creek, which flows into the lake. The fire marshall said an investigation showed that a paint-like water-soluble binder applied to the nearby Lakeridge track ran into the creek after a heavier-than-expected rainfall overnight. “Its like a paint and a polymer, “ he said. “The rain apparently dissolved it before it could completely cure and harden.” The binder was applied to the track through a contract with Atlas Track&Tennis, a Tualatin-based company that specializes in athletic surfaces. Atlas has hired an environmental contractor, Clearwater Environmental Services of Wilsonville, to clean up the spill. Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2009/08/residents_warned_to_stay_out_o.html

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Public Health and Healthcare Sector

32. August 13, New York Times – (International) Swine flu rattles nerves as it spreads in India. India is struggling to cope with the spread of swine flu, with at least 17 deaths confirmed from the virus and nearly 1,200 diagnosed cases. The outbreak has caused panic in much of the country, with schools, theaters and shopping malls closing in many places. The government is grappling with competing and sometimes conflicting goals: preventing widespread panic, but preparing for the worst. It has made available tens of thousands of test kits and has built up a stock of 20 million doses of a generic version of the antiflu drug Tamiflu. India’s vast and densely packed population, coupled with a patchy and fragile health care system, has raised fears that the swine flu pandemic could take a particularly large toll here. As of Tuesday, 5,000 people had been tested in India, and 1,193 had been found to have influenza A(H1N1). About half have already recovered. The World Health Organization says that 177,457 cases have been confirmed and that 1,462 people have died worldwide. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/world/asia/13india.html?_r=1

33. August 12, Wall Street Journal – (National) FDA sets new rules on experimental drugs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized new regulations Wednesday designed to provide broader access to experimental drugs for seriously ill people who have exhausted all other commercially available treatments. The new rules, which were posted on the FDA’s Web site Wednesday, mostly clarify regulations explaining how patients can receive drugs in development outside of a clinical trial, and set standards for when drug companies or researchers can charge for the treatments. Many patients can obtain access to experimental products by participating in a study of the drug. Not all patients qualify for such trials, but they can seek FDA approval to obtain a drug or biologic outside such a trial through a so-called expanded-access program. Source:

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Government Facilities Sector

34. August 12, Associated Press – (International) Swine flu cases climb among U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The number of American troops in Iraq diagnosed with swine flu has climbed to 67, making U.S. soldiers the largest group in the country to come down with the potentially deadly virus, Iraqi health officials said Wednesday. The figures were released by the Iraqi health ministry as it detailed steps being taken to control the spread of the virus, which last week claimed its first fatality in the southern holy city of Najaf. A 21-year-old Iraqi woman, who had visited the city’s Shiite shrines, later died of swine flu. The health ministry has also confirmed that 23 Iraqis and six other foreigners have been diagnosed with the virus. Their nationalities were not disclosed. All the U.S. troops had either been treated or were undergoing treatment, said the deputy Iraqi health minister. There have been no fatalities among American forces, he said. The U.S. military did not immediately confirm the figures released by the Iraqis. But earlier this week, it said 51 soldiers had been diagnosed, while another 71 suspected cases were in isolation. Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jcX7Q5ejiq4g05rCXVa5UvuqVRMQD9A1BENO0

35. August 12, Portsmouth Herald – (New Hampshire) Man with gun at NH Obama event ‘intended no harm.’ A Hampton contractor charged with having a loaded pistol in his truck, outside the high school where the U.S. President was due to visit, “intended no harm,” according to someone who answered the phone at his business Wednesday. “He’s just somebody who was forgetful and he made a big mistake,” said a man who answered the phone at Plain & Fancy Brick Work. The masonry company is owned by the 62 year-old suspect who was arrested Tuesday on a charge of having a concealed weapon without a license. The arresting officer said that after the suspect was taken into custody for sneaking past security officials at the high school in advance of the Presidential visit, a warrant was obtained for a search of his pickup truck. Inside, he said, police found a loaded .380 Kel Tec semiautomatic pistol, with a round in the chamber and concealed in some type of bag. Source: http://www.bostonherald.com/business/healthcare/view.bg?articleid=1190596

36. August 11, Berkeley Daily Californian – (California) UC Berkeley School of Journalism server hacked. Almost 500 applicants to the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism were notified today that their Social Security numbers and other private data may have been compromised in a recent campus security breach. A hacker broke into a private segment of the journalism school’s primary public web server in July and potentially accessed sensitive information of 493 people who applied to the school between September 2007 and May 2009. However, while campus information

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technology officials confirmed that a breach had occurred, they said there was no indication that the information had been stolen or misused. Source: http://www.dailycal.org/article/106235/uc_berkeley_school_of_journalism_server_hacked

37. August 10, Louisville Courier-Journal – (Kentucky) Ammonia leak closes old jail building. An ammonia leak in the basement of the old jail building in Louisville, Kentucky Monday forced the evacuation of the building and sent one person to the hospital. The leak occurred when three people were attempting to remove an old printer that was once used for copying blueprints, said a spokesman for Louisville Fire & Rescue. A line that fed anhydrous ammonia into the machine was ruptured during the work, the spokesman said. Workers, who had come in from Frankfort to do the job, were not aware the line was active, the spokesman said. It was attached to a 100-gallon tank holding the ammonia. The spokesman said it was unclear exactly how much of the chemical was released. One worker was taken to University Hospital with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries. The two others were treated and released at the scene. The building houses the Jefferson Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office and other court services, including the Jefferson District Court archives and state Court of Appeals offices. Source: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090810/NEWS01/908100340/1008/NEWS01/Ammonia+leak+closes+old+jail+building

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Emergency Services Sector

38. August 13, San Diego Union-Tribune – (California) Fogging machine to sanitize ambulances. With a more intense wave of swine flu expected to hit this fall, San Diego’s ambulance provider this month has begun sanitizing its rigs with a new fogging machine to prevent viruses and bacteria from gaining a foothold in the vehicles. The machine, which was purchased by San Diego Medical Services Enterprise, sprays a nontoxic “dry mist” disinfectant into the sealed-up ambulance and destroys harmful particles that cling to surfaces, fabric, and electrical equipment and hard-to-reach crevices. Near the end of the 10- to 15-minute cycle, the vehicle’s engine is turned on, and the fog is circulated through the ambulance’s air ducts. San Diego Medical Services Enterprise plans to use the $40,000 device, made by Florida-based Zimek Technologies, on each of its 80 ambulances every month, or more often when needed. Employees will continue to use disinfecting wipes on the ambulances several times each day as well. Company officials had considered buying the device for years but decided to do so this year due to the outbreak of swine flu, scientifically known as H1N1 influenza. Source: http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/13/fogging-machine-sanitize-ambulances/?metro&zIndex=148629

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39. August 12, San Diego Union-Tribune – (National) State to get $7 million for border violence. Border States will share $30 million in federal grants to prevent drug-related violence in Mexico from spilling into the United States, although representatives of many U.S. border cities said Tuesday that crime rates are down. The Homeland Security Secretary announced the grants Tuesday at a conference in El Paso, Texas. California is scheduled to get $7 million under the Operation Stonegarden program. Texas will get nearly $13 million, Arizona will get more than $7 million and New Mexico will receive nearly $3 million. Representatives of U.S. communities along the border said the federal money would help keep cross-border violence in check. Although most noted a decline in crime rates, the mayor of McAllen, Texas, said violence is up sharply in small, rural areas near his city. Source: http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/12/state-get-7-million-border-violence/

40. August 10, KMGH 7 Denver – (Colorado) Denver Fire submitted false training records. The Denver Fire Department turned in thousands of hours of faulty and fraudulent records to an insurance rating agency that helps set insurance prices for homeowners and businesses, a CALL7 investigation found. More than 13,000 hours of training records for 85 firefighters show them doing the same training, on the same date for the same number of hours. That is virtually impossible since the firefighters were at different houses on different shifts, said the state’s director of the Division of Fire Safety, who believes the records were intentionally falsified. Denver’s fire chief said the repeated entries were an accident and no one in his department intentionally turned in falsified records. A number of firefighters who had 30 to 40 hours of training put down for a single, 24-hour day. Source: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/20328520/detail.html

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Information Technology Sector

41. August 13, The Register – (International) Virus arms race primes malware numbers surge. Half (52 percent) of new malware strains only stick around for 24 hours or less. The prevalence of short lived variants reflects a tactic by miscreants aimed at overloading security firms so that more damaging strains of malware remain undetected for longer, according to a study by Panda Security. The security firm, based in Bilbao, Spain, detects an average of 37,000 new viruses, worms, Trojans and other security threats per day. Around an average of 19,240 spread and try to infect users for just 24 hours, after which they become inactive as they are replaced by other, new variants. Virus writers — increasingly motivated by profit — try to ensure their creations go unnoticed by users and stay under the radar of firms. It has now become common practice for VXers to review detection rates and modify viral code after 24 hours. The practice goes towards explaining the growing malware production rate. The amount of catalogued malware by Panda was 18 million in the 20 years from the firm’s foundation until the end of 2008. This figure increased 60 percent in just seven months

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to reach 30 million by 31 July 2009. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/13/malware_arms_race/

42. August 12, The Register – (International) WordPress bug resets admin password. Developers of the widely used WordPress blogging software have released an update that fixes a vulnerability that let attackers reset the administrator password. The bug in version 2.8.3 is trivial to exploit remotely using nothing more than a web browser and a specially manipulated link. Using the special URL, the old password is removed and a new one generated in its place with no confirmation required, according to this alert published on the Full-Disclosure mailing list. The flaw lurks in some of the PHP code that fails to properly scrutinize user input when the password reset feature is invoked. According to WordPress documentation here, the bug has been fixed by changing a single line of code so the program checks to make sure the input supplied for the new password is not an array. If it is, the user gets an error message and must try again. After this article was first published, version 2.8.4 was released. That would appear to be the end of it, but two security researchers wonder aloud here whether it would have made more sense to check instead whether the input is a string. After this article was first published, WordPress documentation showed the suggestion from security researchers was being formally adopted. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/wordpress_password_reset_bug/

43. August 12, The Register – (International) CA auto-immune update trashes systems. A beserker update to CA eTrust anti-virus software created confusion on August 12. The 33.3.7051 update labeled a large number of binaries (.DLL and .exe files) — including some components of eTrust itself — as infected with something called StdWin32. These files were sent off to quarantine, resulting in disabled systems that may be far from easy to recover. Users are strongly advised to block the update. Temporarily disabling on-access scanning, normally a bad idea, might also be worth considering. Several Register readers have informed us of the problem. “CA have got it so wrong with this update that the Anti-Virus is even renaming core elements of its own program directory, to be honest E-Trust could be deemed a virus in itself,” one correspondent notes. CA issue a statement on August 12 explaining that the glitch was due to an engine overhaul that had obviously gone wrong, it said that it has developed a remediation tool. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/ca_auto_immune_update/

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Communications Sector

44. August 13, Lawrence Journal-World and 6News – (Kansas) Maintenance hampers local Internet access, takes down local Web sites. Planned maintenance early on August 12 by Level 3 Communications, one of the vendors that provide Internet bandwidth to Sunflower Broadband, went awry and hampered several local Web sites. That unsuccessful maintenance led to hours-long Internet outages for Sunflower Broadband customers and prevented some users outside of the Sunflower Broadband network from accessing LJWorld.com, KUsports.com and other World Company Web sites. Most users who subscribe to Sunflower Broadband were still able to access LJWorld.com and other World Company sites, but some had intermittent access problems. By the evening of August 12, Internet service had been restored to most of the community, Sunflower said, though the fix was only a temporary one. Level 3 officials were still trying to identify the initial cause of the outage. The Sunflower Broadband general manager said Level 3 was one of three bandwidth providers for Sunflower Broadband. The other two continued working through the outage, but as bandwidth use peaked in the after-work hours, the two remaining Internet providers could not handle the traffic load. The manager said Level 3 became aware of the problem early August 12 and spent most of the day looking for the cause. Sunflower officials said the problem could not be addressed at the local level, but only by Level 3. Source: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/aug/12/maintenance-hampers-local-internet-access-takes-do/?city_local

45. August 13, FierceTelecom – (National) FCC gets serious about smart grids. While it has pretty much kept out of the smart grid fray, it looks like the FCC is now making its move, as it recently hired a former venture capitalist of Polaris Ventures as Energy and Environmental director. He is being tasked with heading a team that he said “will examine how broadband/communications infrastructure and policies can support our national energy and environmental goals, with an emphasis on the Smart Grid.” The idea is not completely far-fetched as Qwest Communications, for example, is providing DSL-based backhaul network services to Xcel Energy in Boulder, Colorado. Thus far, the loudest proponents for Smart Grid have been the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and the IEEE, which jointly have been vocal proponents of smart grids with the launch of their Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Project P2030. Still, the FCC’s influence cannot be understated. Not only will the agency develop rules and regulations for utility companies leveraging wireless spectrum and broadband access technologies, but it also is crafting a National Broadband Task Force that is analyzing the state of broadband in the U.S. One of the new directors first tasks in his new role will be to hold a workshop that will look at how broadband technology will enhance smart grid rollouts. It appears at this point that the FCC’s actual plans are still a work in progress. “Right now we are gathering data and information from experts that will help us develop a plan regarding broadband’s role in energy, so we’ll be able to better answer that question in a few months,” the new director said in the earth2tech article. Source: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/fcc-gets-serious-about-smart-grids/2009-08-13

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Commercial Facilities Sector

46. August 12, WKRG 5 Mobile – (Alabama) Local zoo hurricane ready - Alabama hurricane Gulf Shores evacuation. In 2004, Hurricane Ivan wiped out the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo, forcing the evacuation of every animal and bird in the facility. Zoo keepers and volunteers moved the animals out, one by one, and transported them to individual safe houses further inland. “If we have a hurricane, all we have to do is lock them down in the Category 5 night-houses and spend the night at the zoo,” said the zoo director. Construction on the zoo’s new evacuation shelter on County Road 6 north of Gulf Shores is nearly finished. The site of the storm shelter will also be the zoo’s new home. The new zoo will open in 2011. Source: http://www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/local-zoo-hurricane-ready/256504/Aug-12-2009_7-58-pm/

47. August 12, Vancouver Sun – (International) Bomb defused at Vancouver-area mall. An explosive device found in the parking lot of British Columbia’s largest mall has been defused, according to police. Burnaby Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) shut down an area of Metrotown Mall Tuesday afternoon after what appears to be a pipe bomb was discovered in a parking lot near the south end of the complex. RCMP corporal said it has not been confirmed if it was a pipe bomb or another explosive device. The RCMP explosives team was called to the scene to dismantle the device. Source: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Bomb+defused+Vancouver+area+mall/1884686/story.html

48. August 11, News-Review Today – (Oregon) Half Shell concert evacuated for bomb threat. At about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, a bomb threat prompted the end of the concert called the “Half Shell event” and the evacuation of Stewart Park in Oregon. The Riverbend Police Department (RPD) watch commander captain said there are no suspects in the case, but the investigation would continue. Stewart Park was one of several parks in Douglas County evacuated in response to a 911 call that came in at 8 p.m. The unidentified male caller said the bomb was live and was in a cooler near the restrooms at a park and would go off in 17 minutes if the park was not cleared. The caller did not say which park. Attempts to trace the call were not successful, but 911 dispatch logs indicate it may have come from near the fairgrounds. Authorities were dispatched to Stewart Park, Riverbend Park in Winston and all parks in Sutherlin. Each park was evacuated, according to the 911 dispatch logs. Ten law enforcement officers from RPD, Oregon State Police and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded to help evacuate the 3,000 to 3,500 people, he said. Law enforcement directed traffic out of the park onto both Stewart Parkway and Harvard Avenue, and police vehicles blocked the entrances to late visitors. No bomb was found, according to the 911 dispatch logs, but park officials for the county and city were notified to report any

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National Monuments and Icons Sector

49. August 13, Minneapolis Star Tribune – (Minnesota) Plane crash in Eden Prairie kills 2. On Wednesday, a 53-year-old and another person were killed when the plane crashed minutes after taking off about 11:30 a.m. at Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie. Witnesses told police that the 1958 twin-engine Beechcraft 18 propeller-driven aircraft had trouble taking off and that the plane dipped before it crashed in the yard of the historic Cummins-Grill House, a city-owned brick structure that was built in 1879 by a pioneer horticulturalist and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The unoccupied building was not damaged, although one of the plane’s large wheels rested on its side on the porch. The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane’s pilot was attempting to immediately return to the airfield when the plane went down. Source: http://www.startribune.com/local/53084212.html?page=1&c=y

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Dams Sector

50. August 13, Burlington County Times – (Pennsylvania) Dam repairs under way. Emergency repair crews are working to shore up the Hampton Lake Dam in Southampton, which partially collapsed on the evening of August 12. The collapse is not weather related and likely is due to old age. A spokesman for the county Board of Freeholders said county emergency management personnel are overseeing the repairs to the concrete and earth dam. The dam is privately owned by the developer of LeisureTowne and is situated between that property and the Hampton Lakes developments on Route 70. The County Emergency Management coordinator was on the scene and said a crane was brought in to move large rocks in place to temporarily hold the dam. He said Southampton lowered its dam in the Vincentown section, which could have a slight impact on Lumberton, but Medford closed its dam to counteract any impact the broken dam may have on the creek. Despite weather reports calling for thunderstorms, he said he was not concerned, and the water is at safe levels at all of the dams. Source: http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/26/2009/august/13/dam-repairs-under-way.html

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