- LA fire department is dealing with multi-patient incident
- Witness: Everybody was diving for cover
- Flights heading to LA held on the ground
- Area around airport jammed with cars as access shut
Parts of Los Angeles International Airport are being evacuated after reports of shots being fired there, police say.
FULL STORY
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Parts of Los Angeles
International Airport were being evacuated Friday morning after reports
of shots being fired there, police said.
November 1, 2013 -- Updated 1717 GMT (0117 HKT)
Police: Shots fired at LAX airport
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Passenger recounts hearing "popping sound" in terminal as he napped
- "Everybody started to panic," he tells CNN affiliate KCAL/KCBS
- "People started jumping over one another, jumping off chairs," a Fox Sports columnist tweets
- Fire department is on scene with ambulances for "multi-patient" incident
Airport officials said a
police incident began about 9:30 a.m. at Terminal 3 at LAX, airport
spokeswoman Nancy Suey Castles said.
Passenger Robert Perez,
who was getting ready to fly Virgin Air, was taking a nap in the
terminal when panic erupted, he told CNN affiliate KCAL/KCBS.
"I heard a popping sound,
and everybody was diving for cover," Perez told the station. "The TSA
said there was a shooting in the terminal and evacuate the building."
At least 100 people came down a staircase. "Everybody started to panic," Perez said.
Fox Sports national
columnist Bill Reiter was also at the airport during the gunfire. "After
the initial burst of gunfire and hiding, people started jumping over
one another, jumping off chairs, pushing each other. Chaos & fear,"
he said on his Twitter account.
The passengers were directed to board a bus and were taken to a smaller terminal, Perez told the affiliate.
The Los Angeles Fire
Department is assisting with a "multi-patient" incident at Los Angeles
International Airport, the department said Friday on Twitter.
Firefighters were laying
down tarps on the street at the airport, which appeared to be triage
tarps. Several ambulances were at the airport, and at least one person
was loaded into an ambulance.
The area around the airport was jammed with cars as police shut down access to the airport Friday morning.
CNN's Casey Wian contributed to this report from LAX.
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