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FOX 45 Evacuated For Suspicious Person The building housing Baltimore's FOX45 and CW54 was evacuated Thursday afternoon for a suspicious person.The studio is in the 2000 block of West 41st Street. The building was evacuated around 1 p.m, and police and fire resources responded to the scene."I would say I've never had to evacuate because of a threat," said WBFF-TV news director Mike Tomko, who added the station's newscasts tonight would proceed as usual if they're allowed back inside."They're a little worried, but everybody's safe," Tomko said. "They're all professionals."He said it's not unusual for people to visit the station trying to get their message across, but what happened here is: a man wearing a mask and sunglasses entered and said he had a bomb.The security guard, a man identified as Jourel Apostolidies, said the man handed him a flash drive. On the drive were videos of the man talking to the camera about what he believed were government conspiracies."My first thought was to get him out," he said. "My first instinct was to make sure he keeps his cool head."The man was wearing a hedgehog onesie, light vest and combat boots, Apostolidies said. After he issued a request for staff to evacuate, he said he sat down and talked with the man."I'm not going to say I saw a bomb, what I saw was an attempt to make a fake bomb," he said.Read More At: http://www.wbal.com/article/159947/124/fox-45-evacuated-for-suspicious-person
