Tons of sirens, multiple helicopters buzzing low, anyone have any intel?
Edit: Several dozen police cars, swat van, ambulance, fire truck all just crossed the 13th ave bridge so looks like it’s wound down but what happened?
Posted May 7, 2020, 7:21 PM UTC · edited
I think it’s to celebrate and commemorate the doctors and nurses working at Highland hospital
It looks like it is for health worker appreciation.
Heard all the sirens near Kaiser. Was wondering what it was about
They whole squad and two helicopters are also going around Broadway and MacArthur right now, near the Kaiser and Sutter Health area.
Accident during that time
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/oakland-multi-vehicle-injury-collision-closes-i-580-lanes
I think this was unrelated but also brought a big presence in. Very sad.
This post on citizen shows the caravan of police vehicles I saw earlier: https://go.citizen.com/pWm07SkKi6
Could you post a screen shot?
It’s a video, just a huge caravan including a truck with police jet skis... Could it really be a ceremonial thing for hospital workers? It was quite the presence for a while.
Yeah maybe! I thought maybe a brush fire since it’s been so hot. Hopefully it’s just to honor the Hospital staff though.
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The whole parade just passed through Temescal. All the fire trucks, multiple OPD cars, and the UC Berkeley bomb squad car.
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I saw this this morning, i was attempting to enter the freeway on park st going north but was slowed by cops, ambulances and firefighters entering and driving on the opposite direction. I was one of the lucky ones that still managed to get through. I went to Panda Express on Broadway for about 20 mins and went back the same way to see what was going on and i saw maybe 30+ first responders still there and 2 helicopters. Traffic was completely stopped and people were walking outside of their cars. Turns out there was a bad car accident involving multiple cars and at least 2 fatalities.
I live near Park & Brighton. Two helicopters flew over our house and have been circling the area for about 10 - 15 mins. Any idea what’s going on?
edit: Loads of sirens as well.