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Old dynamite found in Black Mountain
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February 23, 2012 |
A woman doing some early spring cleaning in a
shed on her property on Black Mountain Road
Monday morning needed a little extra help when
she came across what appeared to be a bag of
dynamite.
According the Sheriff's Chief Deputy Rich
Stevens, the woman was cleaning the shed and
opened an old cabinet that was tucked in the
back when she found the explosives. She
immediately suspected what it was and called the
sheriff's office.
Deputies and emergency incident commander Bob
Graham were sent to the scene, where they
initially identified the material and, not
knowing how old or volatile it might be, secured
the scene and called in the Spokane Bomb Squad.
"It wasn't that much material," Stevens said,
"maybe two sticks in total, a type often used in
rock quarries."
A bomb squad team arrived Tuesday morning, took
the dynamite to a safe area on the property and
detonated it there.
"It made a pretty good boom," Stevens said,
adding that the property owner did the right
thing in not attempting to move the suspicious
material and calling for help. |
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