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To: stockman_scott who wrote (43075)	10/9/2001 3:06:11 PM
From: Frederick Langford	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

HazMat teams investigate suspicious powdery substances at 2 Naples locations Tuesday, October 9, 2001 By GINA EDWARDS, gvedwards@naplesnews.com Officials from local hazardous materials teams are currently responding to two Anthrax scares, one at the Fifth Third Bank at 4099 Ninth Street North and the other at the Cummings & Lockwood law firm at 3001 Ninth Street North. Employees at both locations discovered white substances in mail delivery packs there, authorities said. The substances haven't been confirmed as the deadly anthrax virus. "You have to assume it's anthrax or something suspicious but it's probably nothing," Collier County Emergency Management Director Ken Pineau said. Emergency dispatch officers were called by Fifth Third Bank workers at about 9:28 a.m. after an employee there discovered a white substance in an envelope. At least eight people were potentially exposed at Fifth Third, and about 20 people at Fifth Third are being quarantined as part of procedures set in motion to deal with a potential anthrax scare, Naples police spokesman Victor Morales said. At Cummings & Lockwood law firm, as many as 150 people are being detained inside the building and some of them may have been exposed. As of 11:30 a.m., units from the North Naples fire department's Hazmat team were putting on biohazard suits and preparing to enter the Cummings & Lockwood building within the hour. A sticky white substance was found in a mail delivery pack at Cummings & Lockwood, North Naples Fire Chief James Tobin said. Emergency officials received a call from Cummings & Lockwood at 10:21 a.m. The local office of the FBI is located in the same building complex as Cummings & Lockwood, but officials at the scene said they have no reason to suspect that the FBI office was a target. Naples police officers have also been dispatched to Naples-area post office locations as part of the scare, Morales said. The FBI is also on the scene. Shortly before noon, it was reported that the people in the law office building were being decontaminated in a hazmat tent and would be taken to Naples Community Hospital. Fred