UPDATE: Edmonds Runner Safe After Boston Marathon Bombing: Google Launches Person Finder

Update: 3 p.m., Monday, April 15: As the toll of injured from explosions in Boston mounted, Google launched its person finder Monday to help people share information about loved ones after two explosions rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon today, and a third shortly thereafter at the JFK Library.

The Person Finder has options to add information about yourself if you are in Boston, or to search for someone you haven't yet heard from.

Among the three incidents, authorities have confirmed at least 100 people injured and two dead.

UPDATE, April 15, 2:10 p.m.: Edmonds runner Adam Cornell, 40, had just finished his first Boston Marathon and was stretching in his hotel room Monday when he heard sirens after at least two explosions near the finish line, he told The Seattle Times.

“This is stunningly horrible,” he said by phone. “This shouldn’t happen. This was 27,000 people pursuing their passion, just trying to enjoy their sport. They weren’t hurting anybody.”

Cornell finished some 50 minutes before the explosion and his wife walking to meet him passed by the finish area a half-hour later.

“It’s one of those things – it could have been me. It could have been my wife,” he told the Times from his hotel room. “I’m looking out the window right now at a line of ambulances two blocks long just waiting to get into the medical tent set up across from the finish line.

“This is a horrible day for sports, for the world,” he said.

For the Times story, which includes comments from other Seattle area runners, click here. The Times operates a pay website, but allows several local stories to be viewed free per month.

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Original story:

Though the Boston Marathon is thousands of miles away, two bomb blasts near the finish line Monday hit close to home as seven Edmonds residents were registered to run in the race.

Patch is tracking live reports at this link as the injured and dead are cared for. At least 22 people have been reportedly injured, and two dead in the most recent reports.

While unconfirmed by additional sources as yet, one of Shoreline-Lake Forest Patch's Facebook fans, Christopher Rossiter, told Patch,  "I know 2 people who ran today. One is alive; but in the hospital. The other is unknown."

If you were in the Boylston Street area—of if your friends and family believe you may have been in the area—you can use the Red Cross's Safe and Well site to register yourself. The site, activated by the Red Cross for the marathon explosion, allows user to search for you by name to check on your status. 

To register your name, go to the Red Cross Safe and Well site.

The following Edmonds residents were signed up for the race:

This is a developing story; Patch will bring you more details as they become available.

Do you have a loved one participating in the race today? Please share their story with us, or ask them to call us at 425-394-3506 or email edmonds@patch.com.