State and federal agencies, including the North Olympic Peninsula’s Coast Guard command and U.S. Customs, increased their vigilance Sunday when the national alert level was stepped up to orange, the second-highest.
But all agencies stressed that there was no specific threat to the Northwest.
Coast Guard Group Port Angeles, a command that stretches from Port Townsend to LaPush, was still taking “appropriate security measures” on the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the name of homeland security, said Lt. Brian Erickson on Sunday night.
Erickson said the public will see additional security measures, including routine boat boardings.
Nationally, Homeland Security officials said threat indicators are “perhaps greater now than at any point” since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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The rest of the story appears in Monday’s Peninsula Daily News.