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Oh, a haboob. Baboon makes for a much better story

Worry not, fellow citizens, tourists and baseball fans. The streets of Phoenix are safe.

So is ESPN reporter Pedro Gomez, one of the best guys around.

But it was Gomez’s tweet Monday night that had officials at the Phoenix Zoo or the Wildlife World Zoo near Surprise checking their primate cages.

Thankfully, a baboon was not rampaging the streets and tearing about the electrical grid that powers Chase Field.

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Instead, it was wind and sand event known as a haboob.