An incident at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst temporarily put the military bases on “lockdown” Monday morning.
Officials lifted the precautionary lockdown at the Lakehurst, N.J. navy base sometime after 11 a.m., they said.
The base said the 87th Security Forces Squadron responded to two “simultaneous incidents” around 9:30 a.m.
“No personnel were in danger at any time and no injuries have been reported,” a statement sent out Monday afternoon said.
The lockdown lasted an hour and kept traffic from getting into or out of the base.
One incident involved a report of shots fired outside the Commercial Gate, a public affairs official said. As of early afternoon they weren't able to to substantiate this claim.
Around the same time at the Non-Commercial Gate a delivery driver told gate security that he was carrying a gun. He was cited for bringing a weapon onto a base and was released, said officials.
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The base is perhaps best known as the spot where the airship Hindenberg exploded in 1937. Now known as the Naval Air Engineering Center, one of its main missions relates to the equipment used to launch aircraft from carriers at sea.
Lakehurst merged with Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base last year as part of a joint base initiative to make the military's first three-branch base.
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