A report of a suspicious package on the ferry Puyallup closed the busy Bainbridge Island ferry terminal for about three hours during evening rush hour Tuesday before a bomb unit determined it was a thermos in a backpack, a state ferries spokeswoman said.
The terminal reopened about 6:45 p.m. and ferry operations resumed. The fact that the thermos was metal slowed the bomb squad’s progress, said Susan Harris, a spokeswoman for Washington State Ferries. “If it had been something like a sandwich or an orange or ‘War and Peace,'” concerns would have been resolved more quickly, she said. “They had to do a few more things than they usually do.” Full Story