Cheryl Rofer alerts me to a past "white powder" scare in Sante Fe, New Mexico. But because she's a pro, she's not too concerned...
Last fall, Litzenberg was the battalion chief for the first SFFD unit on the scene for the Zozobra-related threat. According to the Nov. 6 police report, Santa Fe resident Linda Hansen dialed 911 after receiving a letter titled, “Warning to the People of Santa Fe.” The envelope contained a suspicious white powder.
The letter was written in first person from the point of view of the “Great God of Israel,” who likened Zozobra to a false idol prohibited by the second of the Ten Commandments.
“For at your pagan festival I, the Living God, will open the ground and swallow your people for this horrible thing you do,” The Messengers’ letter states. “This too was done in the day of Moses, for the Israelites built their god (a golden calf) at the base of Mount Sinai.”
SFFD’s hazmat team judged the powder to be “nothing that was a threat to humans,” according to Litzenberg. FBI investigators also arrived on scene, but ultimately the case was assigned to the US Postal Inspection Service.
Yes, the crazies do like to put a good scare into the public. But don't forget, it's only a question of when, not if... coming up on eight years and counting since the Amerithrax incident.
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