Explosions at Boston Marathon - A2K Runners, Check In Please

little k posted on fb.

WTF is wrong with people?

Hoping all our chickies are OK....

BOSTON FIRE Scanner Feed:
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Report: Victims rushed to hospital after Boston blasts
Senior publicity director for ABC News, David Ford, has tweeted that Massachusetts General Hospital have received at least four patients following the explosions at the Boston Marathon:


Mass General tells @abc News that there are at least four patients they have received from the scene of the Boston Marathon.

this is awful

I wish I could make everyone who ever thought about running this check in

I know it's on someone's bucket list <squint>

Is the whole George contingent all right?

Short video here - fortunately nothing too detailed can be seen -
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/15/several-hurt-in-explosions-at-boston-marathon-finish-line/

apparently there is video of the first explosion...

Jonathan just checked in on FB.

I work about a block from the finish line - there were about a dozen or more ambulances lined up on Huntington Ave - my guess to wait for the injured - I haven't looked out in the last half hour. We felt the explosion and heard the bombs going off. I am a bit afraid to look out.

We aren't in lock down - but we are advised to stay in the building. I figure right now it is safest here. Not sure as they are closing some of the subway lines and not stopping at certain stops which may be alarming because these are not stops near the marathon - but major stops where you change trains. Not sure how or when I will go home.

Far as I know the George contingent are all okay but have not heard definitively - I know he works in a suburb.

Boston Marathon official statement describes incident as "two bombs."

Will post when I can get through to a website that has it.

Wow, Linkat! Glad you weren't out watching at the finish line.

Fire (unknown if related) at the JFK library in Boston.

Glad to hear from you, Linkat.

RP - our families have been informed that we're okay.

MSNBC: Word that there has been a 3rd explosion, may have been bomb squad taking precautions with unknown packages.

Caution: Video of the explosion

yes for once I am happy to be so overworked that I don't leave my desk. We keep hearing sirens -

I am reading boston's blog - there is supposedly reports of secondary devices. Perhaps why they are not stopping at certain subway stops. Do I want to be on a subway later?

Take a cab if you can - that's what I would do - stay safe, hon.

Fox News quoted a law enforcement source as saying at least three people had died. The Boston Herald reported at least a dozen injuries


Red Cross has put out requests for blood donations:

URGENT: Donate blood in Mass:

http://www.redcrossblood.org/ma