{"id":6759,"date":"2010-12-06T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T17:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6759"},"modified":"2010-12-08T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T21:19:12","slug":"what-happens-when-a-hoarder-is-also-an-explosives-buff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/06\/what-happens-when-a-hoarder-is-also-an-explosives-buff\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when a &#8220;hoarder&#8221; is also an explosives buff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/902121--destroying-home-packed-with-explosives-an-amazing-textbook-study\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Watson<\/a> reports on the &#8220;largest amount of homemade explosives ever found in one location in the U.S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now authorities face the risky task of getting rid of the explosives. The property is so dangerous and volatile that that they have no choice but to burn the home to the ground this week in a highly controlled operation involving dozens of firefighters, scientists and hazardous material and pollution experts.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Bomb experts pulled out about nine pounds of explosive material and detonated it, but they soon realized it was too dangerous to continue given the quantity of hazardous substances. A bomb-disposing robot was ruled out because of the obstacle of all the junk Jakubec hoarded.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a truly unknown situation,\u201d said Neal Langerman, the top scientist at the safety consulting firm, Advanced Chemical Safety in San Diego. \u201cThey\u2019ve got a very good inventory of what\u2019s in there. Do I anticipate something going wrong? No. But even in a controlled burn, things occasionally go wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the burning of the house would provide \u201can amazing textbook study\u201d for bomb technicians in the future.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego County authorities plan to burn the home Wednesday but need near perfect weather, with no rain, no fog, and only light winds blowing toward the east, away from the city. They have warned residents in the danger zone that they will be given less than 24 hours notice to evacuate their homes for a day, and that nearby Interstate 15, connecting the area to San Diego, will be closed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Update, 8 December<\/b>: Controlled burn has been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2010\/12\/08\/plan-to-burn-down-california-bomb-factory-delayed\/\" target=\"_blank\">delayed<\/a> until better weather conditions prevail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Watson reports on the &#8220;largest amount of homemade explosives ever found in one location in the U.S.&#8221; Now authorities face the risky task of getting rid of the explosives. The property is so dangerous and volatile that that they have no choice but to burn the home to the ground this week in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,73,13],"tags":[35,343,98],"class_list":["post-6759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-randomness","category-usa","tag-california","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1L1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6804,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions\/6804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}