ALERT Loyola Medical center on lockdown/bypass for 2 hours

[Loretta Van Riet]

A suspicious package found in one of the parking garages prompted a
"code yellow" alert. Campus on total lockdown and hospital on total bypass.

No link. I received a "code yellow" alert because ambulance traffic would now be directed towards my facility, and others.

Loretta V.

 

[thompson]

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/bomb-unit-responds-to-suspicious-item-at-loyola-medical-center/

06/14/2016, 10:35am

Lockdown lifted at Loyola University Medical Center

A lockdown at Loyola University Medical Center in west suburban Maywood that was promoted by a suspicious item Tuesday morning has been lifted.

About 8:50 a.m., a suspicious package was discovered in a parking garage stairwell at Loyola’s Maywood campus, according to a statement from the hospital.

The campus was put on temporary lockdown; all entrances were blocked; and employees, students and patients were asked to shelter in place, according to the hospital’s statement.

The Cook County Sheriff’s Police Bomb Squad investigated the package and determined it was not a threat, according to the hospital. A complete search of the campus was conducted and the lockdown was lifted.

 

[Lurker]

Wow, what ONE guy with 20 'suspicious packages' could do to a city if he just went around dropping them off at random so-called sensitive locations.

So you drop all those packages off, tie up all the local services and THEN do some real evil.

If a guy, or team, were to think it through.