All residences within 1 mile of Warren AFB in Cheyenne, WY ordered to evacuate

Posted by laikalou@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 110 comments

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — An emergency alert was issued at 9:30 a.m. via getrave.com asking all residents within 1 mile of F.E. Warren Air Force Base to evacuate the area.

A second alert was issued at 9:43 a.m. asking all residents along the west side of the base, between Randall Avenue and Pershing Boulevard, to evacuate.

The Wyoming Department of Transportation is reporting that Interstate 25’s southbound lanes are closed near Exit 11 due to law enforcement activity in the area.

According to the Laramie County Combined Communication Center, Laramie County Emergency Management Agency will be sending more information.

“Do not panic it is a safety precaution,” the center’s statement said.

This is a breaking news story, and Cap City News will update as more information becomes available.

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mediocre_remnants@reddit

Wow, that has to be scary for folks in the evacuation zone.

I'm guessing a chemical leak or spill, nothing too exciting though. Or an alien escaped and they're trying to find it or something.

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SwordsAfar@reddit

I'm not scared of it. Not one bit. And I won't be bullied into thinking I am either.

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PSYOP_warrior@reddit

The article mentioned a suspicious package.

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GirlWithWolf@reddit

An alien carrying a package would be suspicious

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Accomplished-Mix5300@reddit

Especially if the package has bigfoot inside it

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ThreeKiloZero@reddit

Well, that depends on what part of town

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GirlWithWolf@reddit

I’m from New Mexico, it wouldn’t phase me lmao

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Individual_Fig_8705@reddit

A suspicious package with an alien inside

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Bjbttmbird@reddit

An illegal alien carrying a suspicious package is even more suspicious in Wyoming!

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delta806@reddit

A suspicious alien with a package you say

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DownwardSpirals@reddit

A suspicious alien with a package inside?

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

It would have to be a very large package to evacuate everyone within a mile of Warren AFB to evacuate, given that the Air Force base is fairly large itself.

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Ecliphon@reddit

Could be large in size, or mid-sized (moving box size) and they detected traces of something potentially dangerous (nuclear, chemical, biological) and are playing it safe.

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

Nope. I'm thinking nuclear incident. Or potential nuclear incident. Warren is one of three ICBM bases, and the nuclear weapons storage area is on the western side of the base.

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MACHUFF@reddit

The evacuation is on the east side of the base, they released an updated evacuation order.

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MagnetHype@reddit

If that were the case they would be evacuating far more than a mile

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

They initially were.

Also, I think OP might have messed up (or the source quoted messed up):

A second alert was issued at 9:43 a.m. asking all residents along the west side of the base, between Randall Avenue and Pershing Boulevard, to evacuate.

The area between Randall Ave and Pershing Blvd is *EAST* of the base, right at Exit 11, not *WEST*.

So it is starting to sound more like a suspicious package, and that would track with recent activity at MacDill AFB in Florida:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacDill_Air_Force_Base#Incidents

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. If it happens again, well, we'll know, won't we?

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tanksalotfrank@reddit

What's the package so suspicious about? /j

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NaggerGuy@reddit

probably the alien (nhi bc they're from "here")

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Ilfixit1701@reddit

It was an unannounced visit from Abe Fromann.

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blaze61518@reddit

I’ve seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind… aliens must be landing

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

My guess is a nuclear incident. You don't evacuate everyone within a mile of the base because of a suspicious package.

Warren AFB is the home of the 90th Missile Wing, and controls 150 Minuteman III missile silos through 15 Launch Control Centers, and there is a large nuclear weapons storage facility at the western edge of the base.

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Subfan2019@reddit

The standard evacuation range for pretty much anything in Wyoming starts at 1 mile. Today has been pretty calm at 10-16 MPH winds but it is normal for 30+ MPH winds so any chemical release spreads pretty quickly. This was a reported suspicious package and without knowing the contents or expectations of the package, a largish area was cleared. While it appears that it was determined to be nothing, it could have been anything from a bomb meant to harm people close by to a release of anthrax that had the potential to spread pretty far away.

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

Anthrax? Well, you wouldn't that released Among The Living and Spreading The Disease. I mean, this evacuation isn't the Be All, End All of protective measures they could take. Who knows if it's The Enemy, and if the perp(s) are Armed and Dangerous. I can imagine that base security is Gung-Ho to find them, so that it's Out Of Sight. Out Of Mind.

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cyclob_bob@reddit

Anthrax is a spore

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

Are you unaware of the thrash metal band named Anthrax, and the fact that I liberally sprinkled their album and song titles in my post?

Or are you aware and think that I don't know about Bacillus anthracis, and its historical use as a bioweapon, like the testing on Gruinard Island in WWII and and the leak at Sverdlovsk in 1979?

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cyclob_bob@reddit

Post your physique

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EnHalvSnes@reddit

Aren’t there public radiation maps that would reveal this by now?

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EnHalvSnes@reddit

There is one here: https://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-near-real-time-air-data

Seems to be down right now 🤨

Real-Time Radiation World Map on https://www.gmcmap.com seems to exclude Wyoming at the moment

Same with radmon: https://radmon.org/index.php

But it is probably nothing...

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unhiddenninja@reddit

Nuclear incident would make sense given the intentional loosening of regulations regarding the development of new reactor designs (they want 3 approved by July of THIS YEAR).

The Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating, without making the new rules available to the public, according to documents obtained exclusively by NPR.

The sweeping changes were made to accelerate development of a new generation of nuclear reactor designs. They occurred over the fall and winter at the Department of Energy, which is currently overseeing a program to build at least three new experimental commercial nuclear reactors by July 4 of this year.

Source

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

Nuclear incident would make sense given the intentional loosening of regulations regarding the development of new reactor designs (they want 3 approved by July of THIS YEAR).

No, it really wouldn't make sense, because nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons are two very, very different things controlled by very, very different regulations.

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unhiddenninja@reddit

I think I just imagined something different when you said "nuclear incident". I didn't immediately picture nuclear weapons.

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

Warren AFB is one of the 3 Air Force bases that control our Minuteman III ICBM force. Warren controls 150 individual ICBM silos, through 15 underground Launch Control Centers (LCCs).

The other two are Minot AFB in North Dakota and Malmstrom AFB in Montana, each with the same complement of missile silos, for a total of 450 silos.

At the west end of Warren AFB there is a very distinctive nuclear weapons storage facility.

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unhiddenninja@reddit

Neat context, I appreciate it. I'm gonna delete these comments now.

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Pinkowlcup@reddit

It would track that the suspicious package is an end run around admitting to nuclear material being present. To date, afaik, Minot has been the only public disclosure.

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Negative_Criticism41@reddit

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Logical_Hospital2769@reddit

Amazing!!! Ive never seen this one before.

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FrozenRage1989@reddit

Passed by this area this morning and saw all the emergency vehicles, had no idea what was going on. Glad it's all clear.

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Common-Ad6470@reddit

Did someone drop a nuke?

😳

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ViolettaQueso@reddit

Someone mailed one a month ago from Denver and it just now got dropped off /j

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eipevoli@reddit

The postage on that must have been obscene and lucky it arrived in less than a half-life

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ViolettaQueso@reddit

I’m chuckling at this way more than I should be. Thank you, I think.

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Common-Ad6470@reddit

🤣🤣🤣

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

Maybe.

My guess would be a fire on or near a nuclear weapons facility. Warren AFB is both an ICBM and strategic bomber base. There isn't any danger of an actual nuclear detonation, but a bomb or warhead that cooks off because of a fire is pretty much like a dirty bomb.

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illiter-it@reddit

That's a big area for a suspicious package.

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PSYOP_warrior@reddit

Maybe it's a really large package?

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226_Walker@reddit

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EddieCheddar88@reddit

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eat_my_ass_n_balls@reddit

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What sub am I on!?

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ViolettaQueso@reddit

Idk but I think you should leave 😂😂😂

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MiniGiantRiverOtter@reddit

You need to leave!

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ViolettaQueso@reddit

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eat_my_ass_n_balls@reddit

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Babzibaum@reddit

When the government says "Do not panic," it's time to panic. Because they are fekkin lying, as every single day has shown.

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c0l245@reddit

Fuck Wyoming.

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doubletake_faye@reddit

Dang bro what did Wyoming do to you 😭

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c0l245@reddit

It's a shithole forever eating up two senate seats while being bass-ackward.

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doubletake_faye@reddit

It’s funny to me that they tout being the first state to given women the right to vote, while being very much not a progressive state.

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

The inherent assumption in your statement is that progressivism is an unalloyed good.

Sometimes progress isn't.

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Genetics@reddit

That’s an interesting thought. Is there an example that comes to mind? My first, and probably most obvious, answer would be nuclear weapons.

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

That's my thought too, that this isn't about a suspicious package, it's about a physics package. Or packages.

Incidents have happened in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOMARC_missile_accident_site

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion

Generally the storage of nuclear weapons is under very strict control and is very safe. When my brother was a Marine he guarded them at a naval air base for part of his enlistment.

But there is always a chance of something going wrong. Explosives are explosives, and even if a full-blown nuclear explosion isn't possible, it can spread plutonium nyborg^(1) all over the place when the explosives cook off.

That's like a dirty bomb going off.

So my thinking is something is wrong at or near the nuclear storage facility, which BTW is easy to see on a map. Look for the double fenced areas with tall polls for hanging anti-helicopter wires and limited entrances.

As for the progressive thing, plenty of progressive policies aren't good. For example, rent control limits the amount of available housing and Punitive progressive taxes tend to lead to the rich leaving for lower tax areas, reducing the tax base. Progressive policies around policing, justice, and homeless lead to higher crime rates.

Of course, sometimes progressive policies are good. But it's not by any means a 100% unalloyed good, and we'd do well to remember that some policies have shown that they shouldn't be followed, even if we agree with the intent. Because sometimes there are unintended consequences.

^(1. Yes, I know it's plutonian nyborg. I just couldn't resist.)

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doubletake_faye@reddit

Actually my statement is more just an observation about the states past progressivism and current lack thereof. Not a discourse on progressivism itself.

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c0l245@reddit

When you know that they will vote how you want them to vote, why not?

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

Wy not oming?

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TaterTotJim@reddit

Not that guy but Wyoming can be a very quiet place. It freaked me out driving through. I did see antelopes roaming which was AWESOME!

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doubletake_faye@reddit

Yeah, I lived in Wyoming for a summer as a kid. It’s just a huge, empty state so I can understand that.

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MACHUFF@reddit

Hate is cause they ain’t us 🤷‍♂️

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SBTreeLobster@reddit

Hate us cuz they anus?

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dittybopper_05H@reddit

Have you met Famous Amos' less amiable brother, Heinous Anus?

Pro tip: Don't accept a cookie from him.

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TopFlowe96@reddit

What did Kim take that house too?

Damn Ye

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NecroAssssin@reddit

r/wyomingdoesntexist

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Saturn_winter@reddit

Bro hates beautiful scenery and quiet farm land lmao

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Unique-Sock3366@reddit

Devil’s Tower and Yellowstone are my favorite places on earth!

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TheCivilEngineer@reddit

What did Wyoming do to you?

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Volitious@reddit

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CutenTough@reddit

"Getrave.com!?"

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laikalou@reddit (OP)

It's an emergency alert messaging system. I don't know how other states do it, but in Wyoming you have to sign up to get local alerts. We still get any that are sent through national broadcasts, like Amber Alerts or National Weather Service, but for local alerts sent out by the county agencies, you have to go to sign up with whatever service provider the county has a contract with. Apparently Laramie County uses RAVE mobile safety. My county has switched several times in the last few years and people have had to re-sign up with the new service every time.

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