Suspicions about wires main from a field beneath a business truck getting into Naval Air Station North Island led base officers to briefly shut down the principle gate.
The gate at Third Avenue and Alameda Boulevard was closed for rather less than an hour. The wires, it turned out, have been linked to the car’s brakes.
The wires extending from a field beneath the truck have been noticed throughout regular safety checks on business automobiles getting into the set up, Naval Base Coronado spokesman Kevin Dixon mentioned.
“On account of that discovery, they shut all the pieces down so they might take a more in-depth look and examine it,” Dixon mentioned.
The closure was saved in place from about eight:30 a.m. to 9:20 a.m., a police dispatcher mentioned. Coronado police helped re-route inbound site visitors on Third Avenue to different gates, police spokeswoman Lea Corbin mentioned.
Corbin mentioned site visitors backed up on town avenue, however just for a short while as the height commuter time for folks getting into the bottom had already handed.
The closure got here amid heightened safety at army installations after a U.S. drone strike in Iraq final week killed a high Iranian basic.
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