Terminal evacuated at Birmingham airport

[Bosonic]

Source: CNN

A terminal at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama has been evacuated, the airport said on its Twitter account Sunday.

The evacuation was prompted by a threat received around 4 p.m., the airport said. No other information was immediately available.

The incident comes just days after a gunman opened fire in the Los Angeles International Airport, killing a TSA officer and wounding three other people.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/03/travel/alabama-airport-evacuation/

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Per usual CNN is no linger that reliable

Will save the comments from local media though.

[Bosonic]

3. I lingered a while whilst this was tweeted about

CNN was just the first link-able site with the same information

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. There is far more detail in the local media

that is all I will say at this point. In fact, will send an email to my BIL from the local media, since we are kind of interested in these things. Why? It matters to here no more.

Sorry, I could add to your story, but a swarm has made it plainly clear that they do not want that info. But go to local media, there are more details there. The story *is* per usual, changing, and fast.

[Bosonic]

7. You can't get more local than evacuees tweeting from outside the airport

and they currently don't know any more than CNN. Airport also being vague.

If you know more, please say.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. i pm you a local source that has the relevant info

[alp227]

9. Here's AL.com then

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/11/report_birmingham-shuttleswort.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. aka a local source

[NightWatcher]

2. WTF is up with people? Someone did this a few weeks ago here at JIA (Jax)

A guy for some unknown reason walked up to the tsa checkpoint and said he had a bomb. The airport freaked out but he was found to have nothing. It screwed up travel for a lot of people on one night.

[elleng]

4. Attention seeking for various reasons.

Problems

[NightWatcher]

6. they'll get lots of attention in federal prison

Maybe that's it, they're doing it for 3 hots and a cot?

[elleng]

8. Doubt it.

Easier ways to get that.

[Bosonic]

12. The evacuation at the Birmingham airport is over

Sarah Killian (Alabama's 13 News)

The evacuation at the Birmingham airport is over. Employees being allowed back inside now.

https://twitter.com/SarahAla13/status/397154676573224960

[gopiscrap]

13. yikes