VIDEO: TSA Agent Moves Smoking Bag Away from Passengers

By Tactical-Life

Normally when TSA makes it into the news, the coverage isn’t exactly positive. This time is different. A TSA agent is being credited with heroically moving a smoking bag away from panicked passengers at a security checkpoint in Orlando International Airport last Friday. Watch the surveillance footage of the incident above.

According to Phil Brown, CEO of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, it all began when an unidentified passenger entering the checkpoint had a camera in their carry-on backpack. At some point when the passenger was in line, the lithium ion battery for the camera caught fire and the bag began to smoke. Alarmed, the passenger dropped the bag and everybody in the immediate area began to move away from it.

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That’s when TSA agent Ricardo Perez bravely went towards the bag and carried it away, placing it “between a concrete column and a concrete planter to mitigate any harm that might come with a full explosion,” the TSA said.

Perez, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army before joining the TSA, told KTRK he thought the bag could potentially be an IED.

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Source:: Tactical Life