The Santa Clara County sheriff’s bomb squad responds to a house within the 2300 block of South Courtroom in Palo Alto the place a historic army shell and grenade had been discovered on Aug. 18, 2022. Picture by Sue Dremann.
A metropolis of Palo Alto truck carrying sandbags is parked within the 2300 block of South Courtroom, the place a historic army shell and grenade had been present in a residence on Aug. 18, 2022. Picture by Sue Dremann.
A chunk of a grenade that was detonated at Hoover Park in Palo Alto on Aug. 18, 2022. The grenade was positioned in a house on South Courtroom. Picture by Sue Dremann.
A grenade present in a house on South Courtroom in Palo Alto was taken to Hoover Park, the place the merchandise was surrounded by sandbags earlier than it was detonated, on Aug. 18, 2022. Picture by Sue Dremann.
A member of the Santa Clara County sheriff’s bomb squad takes cowl behind a concrete handball wall at Hoover Park in Palo Alto, the place a grenade was detonated, on Aug. 18, 2022. Picture by Sue Dremann.
A historic army shell and grenade positioned in a Palo Alto dwelling on Thursday afternoon prompted an investigation by the Santa Clara County sheriff’s bomb squad, which detonated the grenade hours after it was discovered, police stated.
The invention was made at a house within the 2300 block of South Courtroom round 3:10 p.m., when a resident reported what they believed to be a World Conflict II-era grenade and artillery shell whereas they cleaned a deceased relative’s dwelling within the firm of an property liquidator, in line with a police press launch. The resident took the objects outdoors and cautiously positioned them within the entrance yard.
Officers and the bomb squad responded to the scene, the place residents in quick proximity to the house had been requested to evacuate out of an abundance of warning. The objects had been positioned in a den closet of the two-story residence, police Sgt. John Alaniz stated.
By about 6 p.m., bomb squad members concluded that army shell wasn’t a risk, however believed the grenade was presumably nonetheless dwell after inspecting the objects with their gear. They took the grenade to an open space in Hoover Park the place the squad dug an 18-inch-wide gap within the grassy space of the park removed from the Cowper Road facet and buried the grenade, then coated it with a mound of sandbags, in line with Alaniz.
The bomb squad crew took cowl behind a concrete handball wall because the system was detonated simply earlier than 7 p.m. A cloud of grey smoke emanated from the pile as a bomb squad member was heard yelling “fireplace within the gap!” A fraction of the black grenade’s outer shell was left after the detonation, together with a number of different charred items of fabric.
