[UPDATE 9:56 a.m.: Photo of the Suspicious Object] Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team (AKA Bomb Squad) Investigating Suspicious Device in Eureka
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Emergency personnel gather near where a suspected pipe bomb was located. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
They state, “HCSO EOD Team is out near 4th and K Streets in Eureka investigating a suspicious device located in the area. Please avoid the area while law enforcement works. Hwy 101 is still open at this time.”
Our reporter, Mark McKenna, at the scene tells us they believe it may be a pipe bomb.
An ambulance and Humboldt Bay Fire are being asked to stage nearby.
UPDATE 9:11 a.m.: According to Samantha Karges, spokesperson for the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department, “The attorney’s office at the corner of third and L have been evacuated as a safety precaution due to a suspicious device located in the parking lot next to the building. Two other nearby buildings have been advised to shelter in place.”
UPDATE 9:24 a.m.: Mark McKenna tells us that the device has been detonated and all is clear. Below is a video of the detonation.
UPDATE 9:27 a.m.: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that the device was rendered safe. Our reporter, Mark McKenna, tells us that the device did not have explosive components.”
UPDATE 9:56 a.m.: Mark McKenna sends us this photo from the scene.
The dent in the pipe is where the Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams charge hit the suspicious device.[Photo by Mark McKenna]
According to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department, “Suspicious device rendered safe, not found to contain explosive components. Residents may return to normal activities. K Street will be opening shortly.” [Photo from the HCSO]
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What’s with the “update” psych-outs?
Is it just me that isn’t getting the updates that are indicated?
Definitely a click generator, if the stated updates don’t post for a half hour or more…
Just curious…
Sometimes you need to hit the refresh button. For example, I notice sometimes when I’m on the main page I’ll see 12 comments and then I go to view the comments and it’ll only show 8. Hit the refresh button and all 12 show. I think it’s showing the cached page from the previous time I viewed. Weird because it only happens on this site. Maybe Kym could have her internet person look into this. ?♂️
Thank you, NoBody,
I will give it a try, next time.
We hope to have this fixed by Spring. But unfortunately, (or fortunately) we have had so many readers at the top end of our busy stories that they have crashed the site and I had to have a cache system installed.
Thank you!
Guess that’s a good problem to have.
I thought it was old age catching up to me. ?
And I seem to be moderated, too…
I didn’t have to approve this comment.
Thanks, I’ll try the refresh thing next time.
Glad it turned out to be nothing and that we had professionals on hand to deal with it safely if it had been an actual explosive device.
Out of curiosity, anybody know what a response like this one costs?
Idk the cost But the training is priceless
Possibly some ones life if it is real and they play with the thing. Be something a young kid might like to play with. I am more worried about the bomb tech placing his equipment near the pipe and running the line to a safe location to set it off. Can’t put a price on human life.
it doesn’t cost anything. its already paid for.
Those officers are just doing their job. Why would there be any additional cost?
Not additional cost, just cost. They’re all paid for their time, and I’m just curious how much law enforcement responses like this one actually cost.
The actual cost depends upon the staffing level for the day. Members of an EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL UNIT (BOMB SQUAD) aren’t always on duty.
If you really want to know, get to work: Public records request for who was there, for how long, their salary, etc. Government by the people and for the people.
Someone lost a chunk of pipe out of their truck, and it cost us how much for the police to go blow it up?
First thing I thought when I saw all the rust was that it fall out of a truck and been there awhile. But, better safe than sorry. Would you also be bitching if the real thing was disregarded by the police and blew up in a kid’s face?
Probably would!
That’s very ugly.
Definitely worthy of the response.
Thank you to the HCSO Team.
There is a lawyers office right there. So its not surprising it was treated very seriously.
Though after seeing the pic, and looking at it a bit longer. Looks like someone’s improvised pressure vessel. If that really is a brass Shrader valve on the one end.
I know the police have to take such reports seriously. And it is good practice. But they could write more precisely. How can a “device” that has no explosives in it be “rendered safe.” It was safe from the beginning unless somebody was using it as a club. Just saying it was found not contain any dangerous material would be more accurate.
It does resemble a pipe bomb and these days we must take precautions…
I believe they’re the Ordnance Disposal Team. Ordinances are not generally explosive 😉
Lord, some days…
Thank you. Fixed.
Great job Kym, you’re fine. The rest of the world, well…….
So now that a disgruntled person with a handful of pipe nipples can shut a city down we are screwed All that expensive training to collect plumbing parts is ridiculous
You’re thinking about it all the wrong way.
This is a JOBS program: Keep people bust, employed, and paying taxes. Without all three day in and day out, we’re all in deep caca.
As an employee of the public defenders office, this county parking lot adjacent to our building has become a daily nightmare just getting from your car to the office door. If you knew the history you would understand why this was taken seriously. County employees must step over needles, nails, broken glass, human feces, and a variety of broken pieces of metal every single working day. It is not uncommon for employees to encounter someone under the influence who scream, yell, and threaten them as the step from their vehicle. We work in a war zone.
We all do; you, though, get CALPERS
considered paying you a visit at one point in my life. Public offenders should watch they’re back when they’re working so closely with the DAs office
Some people I know considered
Is how that was supposed to start.
What a freaking clown show!
Humboldt County sheriff bust hash labs all the fucking time and their deputies are too stupid to recognize a bho blast tube on the ground? Come on get real you guys. They just wanted to play with their bomb disposal toys.
Stop wasting our tax dollars you clowns