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Bomb squad investigating home-made fireworks operation at Anaheim senior living facility
Anaheim - Police and fire departments were working with the bomb squad to clear an apartment where the renter was allegedly building homemade fireworks, similar to M80’s, shortly before noon Saturday, police said.Officers were tipped-off when the renter purchased "a quantity of materials online," said Sgt. Daron Wyatt. "He showed his materials to authorities and they determined that the situation was unstable." The apartment is located at a senior living community in the 200 block of N. Dale Avenue. Northbound Dale Avenue was closed to through traffic as the bomb squad worked to defuse and dispose the materials, Wyatt said. Some of the surrounding apartments were evacuated to another part of the complex as a precaution. There was no explosion. Bomb techs were carting boxes of supplies out of the building around 2 p.m. Many residents said they unaware that anything was amiss and wondered what all of the commotion was about. A one-legged man was wheeled out of the building handcuffed to a gurney and was loaded into an ambulance around 2:30 p.m. Gene Panter, who lives at the facility, sat in his wheelchair and watched in disbelief. "I know him," Panter said, as the man on the gurney was taken from the building. "I see him every day." "I heard he was making fireworks ... but I never thought that would happen," Panter said. Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-10-30 |
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