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Those seeking information should call the following emergency hotlines.
United Airlines
800-932-8555
American Airlines
800-245-0999
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Management
800-293-4031
Massport
617-568-3100
MBTA
617-222-1000
Give blood
The American Red Cross is requesting blood donations. Click the link below for donation locations.
Donation centers
Red Cross numbers:
781-461-2000
800-462-9400
Red Cross website:
Red Cross website
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Three detained at Westin-Copley Hotel are released
Newton hotel is also searched
By Boston.com Staff and Associated Press, 09/12/01
BOSTON - A heavily armed FBI team searching for suspects in the terrorism attacks in New York and Washington stormed into a Boston hotel Wednesday, seizing three people who were later released.
"SWAT teams were all around holding machine guns," witness R.J. Ryan of Boston, who joined hundreds of other onlookers outside the Westin-Copley hotel in Back Bay, told the Associated Press. "They put somebody in the van. Then they started moving everybody."
Shortly after they entered the hotel, police ordered the building evacuated. The nearby Boston public library was also evacuated. A radio report said shoppers and others were also told to leave a neighboring shopping mall.
Agents wearing bulletproof vests and carrying shields were seen bringing fiber-optic equipment into the hotel. WHDH-TV reported the officers were using the equipment to check under room doors on hotel's 16th floor, quoting the reporter inside the hotel.
In Providence, R.I., authorities stopped an Amtrak train, ordered off passengers, and went on board. WJAR-TV said three people were taken off the train and questioned. However, authorities said he had no apparent connection to this week's terrorist attacks.
Providence Mayor Vincent Cianci Jr. said police told him they were looking for up to four suspects who eluded authorities in Boston. No other details were available.
Meanwhile, police officers converged on the Park Inn at Chestnut Hill in Newton, a Boston suburb. Newton police officer Russ Adam said the FBI was conducting an investigation at the hotel. A clerk at the hotel confirmed the agents were there but said he could not say anything more.
News reports said searchers found Islamic papers and a manual on how to fly a 767 airplane in a room at the Park Inn.
"We were told by the FBI that there was the possibility of a search warrant at the hotel," said Newton police Lt. Paul Anastasia.
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