Police investigating suspicious big-rig near Burbank Airport

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Police investigating suspicious big-rig near Burbank Airport

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) =97 Authorities on Monday investigated a suspicious=20
big-rig parked near the Burbank Glendale Pasadena Airport, closing one=20
runway and prohibiting passenger trains from stopping at the airport.  The=
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big-rig was on San Fernando Road on the city border with Los Angeles near=20
the northeast section of the airport. "We are investigating possible=20
explosives on a parked tractor-trailer near the Burbank airport," said a=20
Los Angeles police officer who said he was too busy to give his=20
name.  Authorities have been on alert for a big-rig since the California=20
Highway Patrol in Barstow received an anonymous telephone call Sunday=20
afternoon, CHP Officer Brian Joy said Sunday. The man told authorities that=
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a big-rig towing a 50-foot green trailer was on its way to the Burbank=20
airport and would probably arrive sometime Monday.  The caller was in an=20
unknown location in Texas. He said he used to work with the driver of the=20
big-rig and that the motive "had to do with the war on terrorism," CHP=20
Commissioner Spike Helmick said Sunday.  The north-south runway closure did=
=20
not stop air traffic, which was diverted to the east-west runway. It was=20
unclear how train passengers would continue their travel into Los Angeles.


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