— San Francisco International Airport (SFO) ✈️ (@flySFO) July 16, 2022 Jul 15, 23:32 The airport tweeted that vehicles are now allowed to exit international garages. Vehicles are now allowed to exit international garages — San Francisco International Airport (SFO) ✈️ (@flySFO) July 16, 2022 July 15, 21:40 The international terminal at San Francisco International Airport is being evacuated, the airport announced on social media Friday night at 21:28. Due to ongoing police activity, the International Terminal is being evacuated. Please avoid the international terminal until further notice. AirTrain and BART services are suspended. Disembarkation and pick-up of passengers only at the domestic terminals. More updates to come. — San Francisco International Airport (SFO) ✈️ (@flySFO) July 16, 2022 Update: The International Terminal and A&G Garages are still closed. The police are continuing their investigations. AirTrain and BART services remain suspended. A shuttle service is available from the domestic terminals. Contact your airline for specific flight information. — San Francisco International Airport (SFO) ✈️ (@flySFO) July 16, 2022 The SFPD confirmed the evacuation, saying that “at approximately 8:15 p.m., officers assigned to SFO received a report of a bomb threat. Officers on scene located a suspicious package and believed the object to be incendiary.High alert International Terminal SFO evacuated Additional SFPD resources, which include SFPD EOD [Explosive Ordnance Disposal] The unit is investigating. Officers are detaining an adult man in connection with this incident.” Delays should be expected at the airport, police said. AirTrain service has been suspended. Videos on social media showed hundreds of passengers waiting in the area outside the terminal. Many reported receiving an emergency alert on their phone about the evacuation. I’m not used to getting this kind of warning! Something important is collapsing at #sfo pic.twitter.com/WQe3XWxk4j — Radojka (@radojkasf) July 16, 2022 The SFO International Terminal was evacuated. For security reasons pic.twitter.com/PnpnG62I9b — Krishna Ramamurthy (@KrisMurthi) July 16, 2022 The BART station at SFO is closed, the agency said on Twitter Friday at 8:50 p.m. There is a closed station at San Francisco International Airport due to police activity. Samtrans bus service is available between Millbrae and SFO in both directions. Samtrans will accept BART tickets as fare. — BART Alert (@SFBARTalert) July 16, 2022 There will be a Samtrans bus between Millbrae and SFO in both directions while the station is closed. The agency said Samtrans will accept BART tickets as fare. We have contacted SFO officials and have not received a response. This is a developing story. We will update this as more information becomes available.
title: “The San Francisco International Airport Terminal Was Evacuated " ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-26” author: “William Rodriguez”
The airport announced the evacuation via Twitter at 9:28 p.m. without giving details of the police activity. The airport’s AirTrain and Bay Area Rapid Transit trains were suspended. The airport’s BART station was closed at 8:42 p.m., according to a tweet from the transit agency. Disembarkation and pick-up of passengers were limited to the domestic terminals of the airport. Additional information was not immediately available. An airport spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment. The Morning Update and Afternoon Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines. Sign up today.
