Warning Delayed 10 Minutes

For 10 minutes, the city’s 911 command center failed to report the bomb threat against Centennial Olympic Park because operators didn’t know the park’s address and couldn’t enter the report in their computers without it, a source said Tuesday.

“The document I saw shows the first 10 minutes were taken up looking for an address,” said the source, who has seen an eight-page summary prepared by the Police Department of events surrounding the call early Saturday.

A computer log obtained by the AP also suggests a 10-minute delay in handling the call but does not give a reason.

When the bomb went off at about 1:25 a.m., park security officers were evacuating the area near an outdoor stage - not because they knew of the threat, but because a guard had spotted the unattended knapsack that held the explosive.

The Police Department’s computer-enhanced emergency system requires a 911 operator to enter a street address for a reported crime in order to transmit the information to a dispatcher, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The computer log obtained by the AP shows the operator finally found a street address for the park, but the source said it was not clear from the other documents how that was done.

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