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Bombings today at the Boston Marathon left at least three dead and at least 130 injured.
Staffers with Emmaus-based Runner's World magazine checked in earlier today -- all are safe.
Bangor resident Neil Policelli finished his 13th Boston Marathon seven minutes ahead of the blasts.
"I heard it and saw it. I saw the smoke," Policelli said. "It was quite sobering I must say. As far as I know, all the local people are OK."
Policelli was in the finishers' chute retrieving his belongings when he heard the explosions. And there was no question in his mind that he'd just heard a bomb explode, he said.
His thoughts immediately turned to his friend Julie Villiano, also of Bangor, who was close on his heels and her husband, Steve, who was a spectator two-tenths of a mile from the finish lines.
"He was instructed by the police to just start running," Policelli said of Steve.
Policelli began panicking when he realized Julie Villiano may have been caught in the blast. He tried calling her husband but cell service had already been shut down. He decided to head towards the finish line where he actually ran into Julie Policelli, who had spoken with her husband.
"It was just lots of hugs and tears," Policelli said tonight from their hotel about a mile-and-a-half from the blast site.
They feel safe in their hotel but Policelli said if they were staying downtown he would've just driven home tonight.
While his first concern was making sure everyone he knew running the marathon was OK, his thoughts have now turned to the injured and the dead.
"The fact that an 8-year-old child was killed was pretty rough since I have a 6-year-old granddaughter," he said as his voice cracked. "I can't even talk about it."
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Policelli has always feared the venerated Boston Marathon could become a terrorist target.
"I always kinda had in the back of my mind: this would be the kind of place these guys would hit," Policelli said. "The Super Bowl. Anything that is big and American and they would find frivolous that we find very dear."
When the bomb went off, he said he immediately thought his worst fear had come true.
"It's unimaginable and unfathomable to me," Policelli said. "I have this medal around my neck. It doesn't really mean a whole lot to me right now."
Christine D'Aquila VanderValk, of Upper Nazareth Township, said she had been concerned about Lisa Dente, a neighbor of hers, who was running in the marathon.
She then saw a Facebook posting by Dente telling everyone, "We are OK." VanderValk has since been trying to get in touch with Dente, who told Facebook users she finished running 20 minutes before the explosion.
Dente described how finishing the race was a dream of hers.
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"I was worried about her," VanderValk said. "I feel bad for all these people."
Mark Fleming of Moravian College in Bethlehem, sports information director, said the college's head women's soccer coach, Brienne Smith, had been running in support of a children's cancer charity. It was her seventh consecutive year running in the Boston race, he said.
Fleming said he texted Smith and was relieved to get a response back saying she was OK, finishing the race shortly before the explosion.
"It was not very long before it went off," Fleming said. "She got done just beforehand. We're happy that she's OK and not injured in the events in Boston."
Beverly Atinson, of Bethlehem Township, N.J., told The Hunterdon County Democrat the six members of her running club in Boston today were OK. The paper reported those members of the Hill Runners of Hunterdon as Brian Ashforth of Readington Township; and Holly McDonald, William Goodwin, Eric Eisenhart and John Weidner, all of Clinton Township.
Lehigh Valley Road Runners member Ellen Bishop was safe, finishing with a time of 4:07 -- moments before the first blast went off at 4:09, club President Neal Novak said in an email.
When police began evacuating Boston's Kenmore Square, Nazareth Area High School graduate Kyle Clauss thought it was due to overcrowding.
"In Kenmore Square you can't move on marathon Monday," the Boston University student said. "It's like sardines. Everyone is there. You can't move."
As Clauss and his friends went underground through the subway to get to the other side of the square, they started hearing about the explosions. The crowd stayed calm and moved slowly.
"It was scary," Clauss said speaking from his dorm, which was under a voluntary lockdown. "I was definitely worried about all of my friends who weren't with me."
Clauss' girlfriend works in a shop on Newbury Street so close to the explosion she witnessed it and heard the blast.
"There were marathon runners with blood all over walking past her," Clauss said.
The Boston University police has advised all the students to stay in their rooms so Clauss and his floor mates were all staying put.
"We've sort of been in a bubble," he said. "Cell phone service has been cut. It is very strange I was able to get through (on the phone)."
Clauss said many students saw really disturbing things today.
"A lot of people are very shook up," he said.
Marathon Monday and Patriot's Day is a special day for Boston, Clauss said.
"The entire city of Boston shuts down and celebrates today. It's a holiday. The public schools all get off. Everybody is off. Everybody is here. They couldn't have struck at a worst time."
We'll update this post as we hear from people.
Reporters Sara K. Satullo and Pamela Sroka-Holzmann contributed to this report.