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By Bob Mims
The Salt Lake Tribune
First published 3 hours ago
Updated 3 minutes ago Updated Jan 27, 2011 08:42AM
An overnight lockdown at the sprawling, 801,000-acre Dugway Proving Ground was lifted early Thursday morning.
Officials at the remote Army installation, 90 miles southwest of Salt Lake City in Utah's western desert, remained tight-lipped about why they ordered gates closed at 5:24 p.m. Wednesday. Up to 1,500 employees of Dugway reportedly were forced to stay the night.
Dugway would not detail reasons for the shutdown, but did stress that no damages or injuries were reported, and no threats received. The installation does house small amounts of chemical and biological warfare agents for defense testing purposes, and Dugway also is a prime Army base for testing of an array of conventional military weaponry and ammunition.
Asked specifically Thursday if a chemical or biological leak or spill may have prompted the lockdown, Dugway public affairs specialist Bonnie Robinson said she could neither confirm nor deny that scenario.
"I cannot talk about that," she said, giving the same reply when asked if public safety was ever a concern. She said Dugway officials tentatively planned to either hold a news conference or release an updated statement early Thursday afternoon.
Dugway also serves as a training site for Army Special Forces and Reserve and National Guard units and encompasses expansive swatches of wastelands used for bombing and tactics training by fighter jets based at Hill Air Force Base.
By 4:30 a.m. Thursday, normal traffic in and out of Dugway had resumed. "We have employees reporting for work," Robinson confirmed, but she would not answer further questions.
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