Are people in Leominster particularly jumpy?

Leominster city officials held a press conference on Monday to urge residents not to panic while watching last night's ABC bird-flu movie:

... "Please keep in mind this is a fictional movie, not a documentary, and at this time there is no pandemic in the world," Leominster Health Director Christopher J. Knuth said during a televised press conference at the Leominster Access Television studio on Manning Avenue. ...

Leominsterian Lance Harris was relieved:

... Well thank God for that. I had been planning on donning a gas mask, squeezing into a hazmat suit, and hunkering down on my porch with a shotgun to take out any flu-ridden goose, duck or gull that might fly over head. But now I can rest easy. ...

Still, Harris provides an illustration of what will no doubt happen when the bird flu rolls into Fitchburg's better half - even as city officials try to calm fears that the city could be hit by a tsunami.