Flames gutted the building. Prince georges fire got to the scene to put out the fire before it shed. Thank you for joining us. Bruce, good afternoon. What more have you learned . Reporter you can see the fire is pretty well knocked down at this point in this one story single story old wooden structure behind me. Its a shop and kind of Storage Facility here. There is plenty Media Attention and plenty media concern because of the email threats that went to different usda facilities across the country last week. Obviously it is way too early to determine if this has anything at all to do with the threats. Those threats were taken seriously enough that several usda facilities including this one were evacuated last week. Take a look at some of the video from sky 9. It is just incredible, the fire ripping through this blown a lot by the wind. It was visible university of maryland campus. You can imagine how dramatic this was. The first call came in at 9 45 for a fire alarm. Fire units called
Students. Marina maracco has the storye first on fox5. This Prince Georges County dadn says he knows when his children make it home from school because his home surveillance cameras alert him. When he checked his phone today and saw only one child, he knew there was a problem. Oble you would think once the kids leave your house theyre going to bee actually taken care of. Its the last thing dad of two Michael Grady thought would happen on the third week of school. Scho once i saw her come by herself i immediately called the house and said wherelled is your brother d she said he got left. I said what do you mean he got left n she said the bus drivervr left him. Jazz mean came home from without her little brother mike i. Ke i was pacing around because ica didnt know what to do. My since not home. Any parent in their right home if they see their child noti coming home at a regular theyre going to freak out. He says he got no calls from the school. Sch when he called he said he got no answe
Annie yu at the springfield campus and what it means for students left in the middle because this closure. Good morning, annie. Hey, good morning. Theyre left in the dark. I mean with very little options moving forward. Imagine if you were in final semester all the time you invested and finance money you invested in this school and abruptly shut down overnight. Youre left with very few options. This is springfield location behind me. As you mentioned chantilly location as well in northern virginia. All 130 campuses are closed nationwide affecting 40,000 students. Not to mention faculty and staff now without jobs. Were talking about 8,000 or s so. And so, the forProfit College made the change a week after the college was banned from enrolling new students that rely on federal Financial Aid really for a while itt wi b part of lawsuits and the feds have gone after for Profit School like itt and in this case it was matter of not having required carbon hand to be sure it had resources to ed
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Space fairly far apart and brady says multiple engines had to hook up to lines in order to get water to the ladder truck andck other engines. Nes. Inside the building there were Petroleum Products and tools and all Terrain Vehicle also. However, brady says firefighterr were quickly made aware of the fuel and it never exploded. D. The cause is now under investigation and comes just seven daze after multiple employees with the usda received anonymous threats to facilities in five states, including here at the Agricultural Research center. A spokesman for the usda says the facilities were shutdown until additional securityty measures to be put in place, but the nature of the threats were not revealed. We reached out to the usda for further investigation on the threats and at this hour we have some new information. We were told that the threatsats never involved any ki threat that they going to setet any kind of buildings on fire. Thats what we can tell you right now. Mark brady says inves