Nope. The evacuation went calmly and smoothly because MFF has had the fire alarm go off almost every year, and everyone's used to evacuating the hotel. Rumors about what had caused the emergency were confirmed soon enough. The fandom still doesn't know if it was the target, or if it just happened to be there when the chlorine was released. There's been speculation about what other possible uses the chlorine could have been used for. 19 people were hospitalized and subsequently released, and folks have been pretty private about it. The convention continued as best it could on Sunday; everyone had to sleep in, but otherwise it went on as normal.
The incident went to the top of Twitter for a while, and the media were more than happy to report the story, although they mostly repeated some initial news articles without doing further research. MFF issued a short press release. Some morning mouths on MSNBC broke out laughing. As of today (Dec. 11) the media seems to have largely lost interest. The biggest discussion was on a Reddit news thread. The two most intelligent online articles that I've seen come out of this were on The Mary Sue and on Vox.
If you look around you can probably find someone who's misinterpreted the news or gotten overly ranty, but most of the fandom seems to be dealing with it pretty well. I think that until the authorities come forward with new developments, it's best to put this behind us.
Nope. The evacuation went calmly and smoothly because MFF has had the fire alarm go off almost every year, and everyone's used to evacuating the hotel. Rumors about what had caused the emergency were confirmed soon enough. The fandom still doesn't know if it was the target, or if it just happened to be there when the chlorine was released. There's been speculation about what other possible uses the chlorine could have been used for. 19 people were hospitalized and subsequently released, and folks have been pretty private about it. The convention continued as best it could on Sunday; everyone had to sleep in, but otherwise it went on as normal.
The incident went to the top of Twitter for a while, and the media were more than happy to report the story, although they mostly repeated some initial news articles without doing further research. MFF issued a short press release. Some morning mouths on MSNBC broke out laughing. As of today (Dec. 11) the media seems to have largely lost interest. The biggest discussion was on a Reddit news thread. The two most intelligent online articles that I've seen come out of this were on The Mary Sue and on Vox.
If you look around you can probably find someone who's misinterpreted the news or gotten overly ranty, but most of the fandom seems to be dealing with it pretty well. I think that until the authorities come forward with new developments, it's best to put this behind us.