Jan 23, 2008 9:00 pm US/Eastern
Old Explosives Found In Chester Co. Detonated
TREDYFFRIN TWP. (CBS 3) ―
Bomb squads were called to a Chester County construction site to diffuse a potentially explosive situation Wednesday.
Hundreds of sticks of old dynamite were discovered by construction workers cleaning up a work site near Church and Swedesford Roads in Tredyffrin Township.
Police said the explosives were mostly likely at the site for quite some time and should be considered unstable.
Members of the Philadelphia and Montgomery County bomb squads destroyed several hundred pounds of the ditched dynamite.
The owner of the neighboring next door company, who was ordered out by authorities, spoke about the owner of the land.
"The guy owned the building, went to foreclosure and he got half of what he wanted for the building but he apparently used this and had a quarry business and he blew up things. But he never declared that he had the dynamite," Doug Kinnard said.
The dynamite was removed from three magazines where it had been stored, bomb squad members carefully passed the old dynamite on to pits where it was destroyed.
"We kind of created a little human chain that however they safely do it. They actually hand carried the sticks out of the magazine into the holes that they had built," Tredyffrin Police Capt. Andrew Chambers said.
Several area businesses were evacuated as a precaution while the explosive site is cleared.
Federal officials from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms will determine during an investigation who was responsible for the dynamite that was left and if any penalties are necessary.
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