[ RadSafe ] Radiography Camera Lost Out of a Truck

[Steven Dapra]

April 24

         Other than DHS (presumably a Texas agency) and DOE, why were any 
of these agencies notified?  Why would the US Dept. of Agriculature have to 
be notified that a rad source is missing?   The paranoia is being piled on 
rather deep here, isn't it?

Steven Dapra


At 02:20 AM 4/24/08 -0700, Roger Helbig wrote:

[large edit]

>*** UPDATE FROM TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (JISHA) TO HOWIE CROUCH AT 0743
>ON 12/04/07 ***
>
>The SPEC 150 radiography camera was recovered at 0633 CST. A member of the
>public found the camera and placed it in the back of his private vehicle.
>Upon hearing about the lost source on the local news this morning, the
>citizen turned the camera over to the Fort Worth Fire Department. The camera
>appears intact and undamaged. Texas Department of Health is responding to
>the fire department to conduct a survey and inspection of the camera. No
>overexposures are expected.
>
>Notified DHS (Haselton), DOE (Parsons), FEMA (Burckart), USDA (Watts), HHS
>(Garcia), EPA (Johnson), Mexico (via email), NORTHCOM (via email), R4DO
>(Hay), FSME EO (Burgess) and ILTAB (Sandler).

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