California officials destroy explosive-filled home

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

California officials destroy explosive-filled home
| February 16, 2014 | Updated: February 16, 2014 6:01pm

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies in far Northern California on Sunday successfully incinerated a mobile home whose resident had amassed more than 60 pounds of highly volatile explosive material days after evacuating dozens of people living nearby.

The chemicals, gunpowder, primers for firearms cartridges and other materials found in the house in a sparsely populated area of Redding earlier this month made it too unstable for deputies to even walk on the property without risking a blast, Shasta County sheriff's Lt. Dave Kent said.

Sheriff's officials consulted with water and air quality officials before starting the incineration with a remote-ignited flame at midday Sunday, and the fire went off without incident, he said.

"What's left of the residence is still smoldering, so now we are in a cool-off period before officials can render that property safe for other residents to come back," Kent said. "No other homes outside of that property caught fire, so that was very good for us and for the residents."


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D. Ray East[/center]

[mackerel]

1. Mr. East seems unclear on public safety.

"The resident, identified as D. Ray East, 63, lost his left hand above the wrist, broke his right elbow and injured his right eye in the blast, Kent said.

East told investigators he was making fuel for model rockets. He was hospitalized but has since been released and is at a hotel where authorities can contact him, but he has not been arrested, Kent said.

East's attorney, Jeffrey Stotter, told the Record Searchlight of Redding (http://bit.ly/1gGaPhn ) last week that East regrets the inconvenience he has caused his neighbors but doesn't think the materials at his home pose a threat.

The sheriff's office and local officials disagreed."

[kamron]

2. mind blowing

( authorities can contact him, but he has not been arrested)
IOKIYAR

[christx30]

3. This reminds me

of that episode of Gray's Anatomy when the idiot made a WWII replica shell that got inbedded in his friend. Ended up killing a member of the bomb squad.
This guy is very lucky that he was the only one injured by his recklessness.