On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 11:50 PM, 2 LSFD Engines, 1 LSFD Rescue Ambulance, 1 Battalion Chief and a Rapid Intervention Unit responded to a bomb threat at Idlewood Pizza Stack, under the direction of the Los Santos Police Department's elite S.W.A.T team.
Firefighters arrived to find members of the LSPD and Sheriff's Department attempting negotiations with a man allegedly holding a grenade out before himself, threatening to pull the pin.
This was now Samuel Bertone's second appearance in Idlewood, having already caused distress by threatening to leap from the pizzeria's roof just minutes before.
Despite the officers' best efforts to persuade Bertone to give himself up, he was evidently growing more aggravated by the minute. But members of the Special Weapons and Tactis team saw their opportunity to intervene when the grenade was accidentally let out of his hand and down to the carpark below. He was promptly taken into custody, the grenade secured.
No civilians or LSFD personell were injured in the 25 minute stand-off.
Submitted by Brett Carnahan, Community Liaison Officer
Los Santos Fire Department
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