Demolition crew uncover homemade “bomb” prior to home demolition.
Demolition crews arriving to take down a Dade City house discovered a pack of fireworks neatly placed on a cardboard box top set on a stack of papers on the floor. A jar of some sort of fuel was next to it.
“Coming out of the fireworks was a green fuse,” said Dade City Police Capt. David Duff.
The fuse stretched from room to room connecting the same sort of explosive devices in five or six small rooms, he said. Police, the state Fire Marshal and the Tampa Bay Regional Bomb Squad were called and responded to the home at 38030 Church Ave. shortly after the devices were discovered at about 8 a.m.
The bomb squad worked for about two hours dissembling the incendiary devices. Meanwhile, yellow crime scene tape cordoned off the front of the property, but residents were asked to stay inside their homes rather than evacuate.
“Somebody was going to burn the house down,” said Police Chief Ray Velboom. “We just don’t know who.”
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