FAIRFIELD, CA. (THECOUNT) — An active shooter has been reported at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield Wednesday, according to a base dispatcher.
Fairfield Police and SWAT crews have been dispatched to the base and surrounding area. The base has been put on lockdown as of 10:42 a.m. PT, according to the dispatcher, who emphasized it was not a drill, calling it “a real-world situation.”
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No other information was immediately available.
There was also police activity in Fairfield on the 3300 block of Shenandoah Court, which is about eight miles west of the base. The activity was a standoff involving the US Secret Service as the lead agency along with Fairfield police, according to the US Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of California spokeswoman Lauren Horwood.
It was not clear whether or not the two incidents were related, reports SanFrancisco.cbslocal.
Geo quick facts: Fairfield is a city in, and the county seat of, Solano County, California, in the North Bay sub-region of the San Francisco Bay Area – Wikipedia.