Website uniting fliers with bags

DANIA BEACH — When gunfire broke out at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, travelers dropped their belongings and ran.

Among the 23,000 pieces of property, most have been returned to passengers, but 900 goods that lacked owners’ names or addresses were listed on a website Wednesday to be claimed.

They included computers, phones, tablets, headphones and iPads. Electronics outnumbered books, with titles like “The Stanford Business Journal,” “The Kept Woman” and “India Calling.”

There were pink and black Cheetah-patterned eyeglasses; a bikini; winter coats; and a Gucci backpack, too.

A baby’s onesie, car seat and child’s backpack decorated with images from the animated film “Frozen” were among dozens of blankets, shawls, neck rolls and carry-on bags, all listed on www.global-bms.com, the county’s vendor.

People abandoned the personal belongings when a gunman shot and killed five passengers and wounded six others in an ambush at the baggage carousel in Ter-

minal 2 on Jan. 6.

By mid-morning Thursday, 200 of the 900 orphaned items were already claimed, said Allan Siegel, community outreach coordinator for the airport.

To sign on and make a claim, the user name is FLLbaggage; the password is Aviation.

“The company’s manager said very few people claim the same item,” Siegel said. “For each item, the company calls the person who claims it. Some details for every item are left off the website, and the claimant has to provide that information.”

FORT LAUDERDALE-HOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT/COURTESY More than 20,000 items were taken to a warehouse, and officials are trying to match claims filed by travelers with the items. The number to make a claim is 866-435-9355.