Car into a building
12:54pm--#Milford CT--Report of a car into a building at 299 Bridgeport Avenue. According to Google Maps this is a boarded up vacant building.
Video Report-Pressure cooker detonated at Seaside Park
(Bridgeport, CT – Sept. 5, 2013) -- Local, state and federal law enforcement responded to Seaside Park today on a report of a pressure cooker left unattended along the shoreline. The item was observed at about 11 a.m. in the eastern section of the park. The police and fire departments responded and cordoned off a section of the park and requested the assistance of the State Police bomb squad. State officials conducted a controlled detonation of the item at about 2:45 p.m. “Any time we receive a report of a suspicious package, we respond with an abundance of caution,” said Police Chief Joseph L. Gaudett Jr. “Today’s incident was no different. Obviously, considering the incident in Boston, we treated this as a credible threat,…
Not the greeter they had in mind….
11:30pm--#Bridgeport CT--If you are near the club at North and Center Street avoid the man in the red shirt talking to himself and screaming at people passing by. He is also reported to have a gun in his pocket. Police on the way. He might be on something according to witness.
Busy Bridgeport Fire
#Bridgeport CT--Firefighters were busy this evening. First with the nightly car fire, in front of 199 Yacht Street. Then they received a call for an odor of gas indoors on Ellsworth Street, they metered and found nothing. Then off to kitchen fire in the 500 block of Ogden Street which turned out to be food burning on a stove.
Manhunt in Stratford
7:22pm--#Straford, CT--Police looking for a suspect in the Garibaldi Columbus Ave. area after a minor pursuit.
Empty pressure cooker detonated by bomb squad in Bridgeport
3:22pm--#Bridgeport CT-- Empty pressure cooker detonated by bomb squad at Seaside park.
car fire in Bridgeport
3:08pm--#Bridgeport CT-- Report of a car fire at Jefferson Street and Park Avenue
Man trapped between tractor and vehicle in Monroe
3:00pm--#Monroe CT-- Report of a man trapped between tractor and a car on hammertown road.
Bomb Squad at Seaside Park
2:39pm--#Bridgeport CT--The State Police Bomb Squad is at Seaside Park with a suspicious package. Sources say the item resembles a pressure cooker. The bomb squad is preparing to detonate the item. Dormitories around University of Bridgeport have been evacuated near the area as a precaution. Earlier a toy gun was discovered by a passerby on Iranistan Avenue near the park.
Toy gun is scare at Seaside Park
1:42pm--#Bridgeport CT--A toy gun was the scare at Seaside Park for an unattended package that sent the bomb squad to the park earlier.