LAKEHURST -- The Lakehurst section of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is on lockdown today but base officials are not yet saying what led to the locked gates. Senior Airman David Carbajal said "several simultaneous incidents" prompted the lockdown at 9:15 a.m. He said he did not know what those incidents were.
Carbajal said the incidents did not involve a shooter and no one has been shot, but he could not confirm whether there were reports of shots fired.
The gates on the Lakehurst side of the base are locked, but the gates at the Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force sections remain open for now, he said.
The Naval station at Lakehurst, which encompasses 7,430 acres in the Pinelands, was combined with Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base last year as a result of a recommendation of the federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission.
