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Dismissed Bomb Scare in Downtown TO, 79 Wellington, TD Buildings
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| Orko |
Just got a message from internal sources here at work.
Apparently there was a bomb threat at 79 Wellington, downtown Toronto. It has now been cleared, and the building is 'secure'.
My company has offices in that building, and its where I used to work. I just called one of my friends who still works there, to tell him, and he wasn't even informed.
The building was not evacuated. I have no other info, other than, there was a threat, but the authorities now say it was just a scare.
Just got word that 66 Wellington may have been evacuated, but this is still unconfirmed. |
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| joinT |
all i can say is "WTF is the matter with people...."
do you really think scaring people is going to bring them around to your way of thinking?!?!? |
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| Orko |
| i really hope it was just somebody being an idiot and thought it was funny. that would be better than it being an actual threat. either way, its no time to start ing around with these types of jokes. |
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| AwakenedAddict |
Wow, I was just down there.... they had the place on lockdown, I couldn't do any banking!
On a somewhat related note, there was this ~50 person protest across the street at the CIBC (commerce court). |
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| Tiesto4Life |
^^^ I'd like to think that too but go and prove it to those people. Once you're ed you're ed, can't go back.
FACK!! my bro works in one of those td buildings on wellington, gotta give him a call NOW!!!! |
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by AwakenedAddict
Wow, I was just down there.... they had the place on lockdown, I couldn't do any banking!
On a somewhat related note, there was this ~50 person protest across the street at the CIBC (commerce court). |
yeah it was weird, they were protesting against CIBC and Deloitte, and all the protestors were brown(Indian, Pakistani...so on). It was something about job loss.
I wanted to say, 'hey I am Indian, and work for Deloitte'... |
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| Tiesto4Life |
| ^^^ He just said that they're evacuating people as we speak still!! WTF is going on with this world???? Why can't we just all get along??? |
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| Orko |
| UPDATE: All TD employees have been asked to evacuate the building. My friend was just asked to leave. |
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| AwakenedAddict |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
It was something about job loss. |
Their signs said "CIBC killed 500 jobs". Jobs cannot be killed, come on people! If you are going to protest, at least be intelligent about it :toothless |
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| Orko |
seems like the public was very poorly informed :whip:
news link
| quote: | TD building target of bomb threat
By JOE FRIESEN, ROB SHAW, ROMA LUCIW and PAUL WALDIE, Globe and Mail Update
Toronto — A bomb threat forced a voluntary and partial evacuation of the TD Centre in Toronto's downtown financial district Friday.
Officials with Cadillac Fairview, the property manager of the six-building TD Centre complex, said they were notified of a bomb threat at 11 a.m. and by 11:40 a.m. a message was circulated to all units within the office tower.
Constable Kristine Bacharach of the Toronto Police Service said the threats were called into six buildings in downtown Toronto Friday morning.
“The investigation is still on going but it looks like its winding down. Nothing was found,” she said early Friday afternoon.
When asked if the threats were related to the attacks in London on Thursday , she replied: “Yeah, it could be. This happened last time too.”
Neil Murphy, a spokesman for Cadillac Fairview, said all six of the buildings were swept by police and the company's own security teams around noon on Friday.
Many businesses asked their employees to leave the building as soon as the message was released. By 12 p.m. packs of confused employees were wandering into the large courtyard, many asking each other what was happening.
Police and building security conducted a sweep of the facility, looking in garbage bins and patrolling the halls of the underground mall but no packages were discovered.
“We haven't started evacuation procedures because the police are on sight with us and giving us good direction,” said Neil Murphy, a spokesman for Cadillac Fairview. “These types of things happen from time to time.”
Any evacuations were strictly voluntary, he said.
“We haven't seen anything [suspicious] at this point in time.”
About 20,000 people work in the modernist black towers that make up the TD complex on Wellington St.
By 1 p.m., after nearly an hour out of the office, employees of various divisions of the TD company were being told to go home.
Neither the police nor Cadillac Fairview ordered a full-scale evacuation of the complex, he added.
A Toronto-Dominion Bank spokesperson said the threat did not disrupt trading.
Some busineses didn't appear to alert their employees. Two men standing outside the north entrance to the TD Centre said they were from AGF insurance on the 31st floor and hadn't heard a thing about a bomb threat until they came out for lunch and saw the crowds outside the building.
"We wondered why everyone was standing outside here looking at the building," said one man. "Nobody even told us."
On the south side of the tower, Dione Papadalos stood outside with a group of her colleagues from TD Bank trying to figure out if she should go back inside to work on the 23rd floor, or go home.
Her managers had told her to wait outside, and she'd been standing there ever since, she said.
"Are we in any danger? And if we are, why have we been told to stand outside?" she said. "I guess we'll just follow all the other people."
Ms. Papadalos said she'd been working at the building for more than 20 years and, with the exception of yearly fire drills and the occasional alarms, had "never been evacuated (for a bomb threat) before."
Usually the building management can make a statement via intercom system to all businesses on all floors, she said.
"There was no communication."
Just after 1 p.m. Ms. Papadalos' manager told her and her co-workers to go home because there was little work that could be accomplished in the afternoon, she said.
Cathy Dulllege, who works on the 50th floor, said her bosses passed along an e-mail from Cadillac Fairview and told her to go outside and wait. There was no "official word" from police of the building, she said.
"If this was a serious situation, why did they use this approach, and how come they kept it to people having to read an e-mail?" she asked.
Four police officers in teams of two were posted in the food court below the building in the city's PATH underground system. One patron approached an officer and asked what was happening and if he should leave, to which the officer replied: "Just go ahead and enjoy your lunch."
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| ShadoWolf |
| a group of executives was shuffled out of the building within 10 minutes of the warning... leaving the peons inside for anouther hour :wtf: |
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| d!abolic |
| Doesn't this happen all the time? It was probably kids making prank calls. |
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