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Jail break! I'm not kidding.....
0242 this AM:
'Dispatch, 411'
'Go ahead'
'411, the fire alarm is going off in the jail...we're unable to make contact with jail personnel.'
'10-4, in route'
Note the time. I'm the ONLY city officer working. Thankfully, 2 other city officers that had just gone '10-7' a few minutes earlier, went back '10-8'.
I'm the first unit on the scene. It is still undetermined as to exactly what the problem is. I approach the sally port(only area for a visual) on foot and observe, through the door window, an inmate trying to use the phone provided inmates during booking.
I advise dispatch of my observation. They ask if I want the TacTeam activated.
'10-4', I reply. TacTeams from 2 surrounding agencies are also activated.
Anothe city officer radios me and informs me that if it IS a fire, then the inmates SHOULD be relocated to the exercise yard. No inmates are in sight. When this other officer arrives, he observes inmates housed in the Federal wing, pounding frantically on their cell windows.
By the time other units arrive, it's been confirmed that there IS a fire.....and 5 inmates have escaped. The escapees' crimes range from burglary to capitol murder.
The method used to exact the escapes is still under investigation, but as of 0700 this AM, all 5 are still at large.
Being an election year, this event could prove interesting.....
'Dispatch, 411'
'Go ahead'
'411, the fire alarm is going off in the jail...we're unable to make contact with jail personnel.'
'10-4, in route'
Note the time. I'm the ONLY city officer working. Thankfully, 2 other city officers that had just gone '10-7' a few minutes earlier, went back '10-8'.
I'm the first unit on the scene. It is still undetermined as to exactly what the problem is. I approach the sally port(only area for a visual) on foot and observe, through the door window, an inmate trying to use the phone provided inmates during booking.
I advise dispatch of my observation. They ask if I want the TacTeam activated.
'10-4', I reply. TacTeams from 2 surrounding agencies are also activated.
Anothe city officer radios me and informs me that if it IS a fire, then the inmates SHOULD be relocated to the exercise yard. No inmates are in sight. When this other officer arrives, he observes inmates housed in the Federal wing, pounding frantically on their cell windows.
By the time other units arrive, it's been confirmed that there IS a fire.....and 5 inmates have escaped. The escapees' crimes range from burglary to capitol murder.
The method used to exact the escapes is still under investigation, but as of 0700 this AM, all 5 are still at large.
Being an election year, this event could prove interesting.....
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