initial flash of fire and smoke and a smell that emanated from that reaction. the employee reported his fingers being singed, but refused medical treatment, so a very minor irritation to that employee. jamie: our doug mckelway is live from annapolis, maryland. what happened this morning? nothing new as of now. i just got off the phone with greg shipley from the maryland police. they say nothing new. that may happen. they re having a meeting in paoeubgsville, maryland, some miles up the road from where we stand. here s what we know, the first of the devices went off in the building behind me, the jeffrey building, which is where owl the mail for the governor s office initially goes, the mail room employee opened this, he began to notice this slow combustion smoke and smell, it sined his fingers, he got
apparently the fire department in the county may have been responding to an explosion when they don t know what it is. they don t know what it is. initial reports say it might have been a chemical explosion. let s go back now to annapolis for a second. and i ll just keep on informing you of what i know. these are all reports i m getting some information now through the baltimore sun. the jeffrey building, which is across from the state house in annapolis, includes a number of gubernatorial staff offices as well as the office of homeland security, the office of appointments, and the secretary of state. so it s an important maryland state building in annapolis, maryland. the state capital, that is the state house. these are google images that we re showing you. anybody that s been to annapolis knows that that part of town is centered around the state house. a bit of a hill to get up there. government offices surround it.
it s at the jeffrey building, which is across the street from the state house. we know that the bomb squad or this is what we re told was investigating the incident. the fbi were on their way when the incident took place. this would have been about 1:00 eastern. this is information that i m getting from the baltimore sun. but i have to tell you, this is we re getting new information momentarily. some of it is conflicting. all we know is that something something blew up at the annapolis the jeffrey building in annapolis. there were also reports on the other picture this is this is let s see that wbal picture for a second. this is the maryland department of transportation. again, according to the baltimore sun, and they re not they re saying that they got this from other media sources. according to the baltimore sun, there were injuries at the maryland department of transportation. we re putting in calls to various people in these towns to find out what they know.
that s annapolis right there. okay. that s annapolis. that will be the jeffrey building that we re looking at. i m getting more information right now to tell you about that site that you re looking at. i m looking at the site of the jeffrey building. it is the let me just look through this list. secretary of appointments is in that building, the secretary of state is in that building, the office of homeland security is in that building. that s what i can mostly make out. it is 16 francis street in annapolis, maryland, for those of you who know. annapolis is one of those state capitals that is it s an old colonial town that s very tightly woven. all of these streets are very close to the state capital. which is in that round-about that you can see on the top of the screen. i don t know annapolis well enough to know where the street actually is. 16 francis street.
appointments, you have the maryland office of homeland security, you have the maryland secretary of state office. a couple of other pertinent governor s officers inside that jeffrey building. again, just to reiterate, we re not calling these explosions. wro we re not calling these blasts. that s taking it a step too far. they did flare up after they went off. and there was there have been injuries. but they re not explosions, not blasts. we re whoppia watches these sto unfolding here. two different government buildings within the state of maryland. but if i can, i want to move on to a story that we re also watching for you out of los angeles. in los angeles, the fire department tells cnn there is a haz-mat situation here are pictures from kabc. there s the situation there in downtown l.a., you have a couple of people on the corner of this street. they re being treated for