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Friday, August 19, 2011

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU HAVE A BOMB FACTORY IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU HAVE A BOMB FACTORY IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD?Ever wish you could just burn down a house to clean it up - We did just that. Come hear what goes into that extreme step. The media termed it the Bomb Factory. Learn how 20+ pounds of HMTD and other home made explosives were analyzed and destroyed with full approval of the neighbors.

The lecture will cover an overview of how the response unfolded from November 18, 2010 when the gardener stepped on a rock in the back yard and was severly injured by the explosion to December 9, 2010 when the largest cache of homemade explosives found in the US was destroyed by burning (along with the house) in 45 minutes. Unified command (60 agencies involved) was essential to the success of this response and gaining the support of the community was a must. We will talk about how EOD, Hazmat, and SWAT were blended to complete this task. How the air modeling programs you think work did not come through in the beginning but were modified by various groups to provide the info we really needed.

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