A MAN has been charged on suspicion of possessing an explosive which led to the prolonged evacuation of around 50 houses in Sheffield.

Police said the 34-year-old man is facing charges on two counts of possessing an explosive, after chemicals were found at a property on Ridgehill Avenue, Intake.

They said the substances, discovered on Thursday, were consistent with those used in the production of class A drugs and explosives.

The suspect, who lives on Ridgehill Avenue, has been remanded in custody.

A second man in his 60s arrested in relation to the incident was released on police bail until June, pending further enquiries.

BOMB squad officers carried out a controlled explosion this afternoon after police discovered chemicals in a Sheffield office.

Ridgehill Avenue, Intake, Sheffield, was shut for hours yesterday when police discovered chemicals relating to drug production.

The avenue was cordoned off for a second time this morning when more substances were discovered during a follow-up search.
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“Police had previously found chemicals at the address and the controlled explosion took place to safely dispose of these substances from the property.

“Earlier this morning a number of neighbouring properties were evacuated as a precautionary measure, as the public’s safety is paramount to officers.

“A 34-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly attempting to produce class A drugs, he has subsequently been arrested under the explosives act.

On Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, a gardener was seriously injured when he stepped on some gravel in the yard of a San Diego-area home and the ground exploded beneath his feet. Subsequent investigation of the house and its grounds revealed what authorities called the largest cache of homemade explosives ever found in the U.S. They deemed the house too dangerous to clean out and burned it down instead.
At the American Chemical Society national meeting in San Diego last month, in a symposium organized by the Division of Chemical Health & Safety, officials described how the incident unfolded.
Fire and ambulance crews initially responded to the scene; then they called the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department when they realized that the gardener’s injuries were from an explosion, said Nick Vent, an environmental health specialist in the Hazardous Materials Division of the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health.
Sheriff’s officers subsequently took the house resident, George Djura Jakubec, then 54, into custody for questioning; brought in bomb squad and hazmat crews; and evacuated the neighbors. The property is in a residential area, on unincorporated land but surrounded by the city of Escondido in northern San Diego County. It is also a few hundred feet from Interstate 15.

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) - The State Police bomb squad and hazmat team were called to 125 Jarvis Avenue in Holyoke Sunday morning.

Lt. Thomas Paquin of the Holyoke Fire Department told 22News, Elizabeth Mish, the woman who lives in the home, found chemicals in her garage that belonged to her deceased husband.

She was concerned because the chemicals had been in there for many years.

When the bomb squad arrived they found a couple cases of blasting caps. They took those away to detonate them in a safe area.

The hazmat team found several different chemicals in the house as well.

One neighbor told 22News he was shocked to see so many police and fire trucks outside of his home.

"I just wanted to know if it was stable or not in case it was going to blow up or something. We don't really know about chemicals, it was a little scary, it was a little nerve-racking at first,” said Bryan Borges-Vega who lives across the street.

Police have removed what they say is explosive material from the backyard of the former Forest Hill home of Byron Sonne, the so-called “G20 geek,” nearly two years after his arrest for allegedly possessing explosives.

Closing arguments in Sonne’s trial ended Monday and it is unclear what effect, if any, this new evidence will have in the case, or if the Crown can lay new charges.

Toronto police, including members of the Explosive Disposal Unit, firefighters and ambulance were called early Wednesday to a Forest Hill home near Bathurst St. and Eglinton Ave., the house Sonne once shared with his now estranged wife. She still lives there, according to neighbours.

Toronto police investigator Tam Bui said investigators went to the home to follow up on evidence that came out in Sonne’s trial.

The trial heard that during an online chat May 29, 2010, Sonne talked about a “storage magazine’’ buried in the shady part of the backyard of the home, “sealed and hidden’’ and containing potassium chlorate.

Potassium chlorate can be used to make both explosives and propellants for rockets, his trial heard.

Several houses were evacuated about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday after materials used to make methamphetamine and chemicals for making explosives were found in a house near Chandler Park, officials said.

The materials, found in a house near 22nd Street and 61st West Avenue, could have been volatile enough to explode and damage nearby homes, police said.

The Police Department's bomb squad began searching the house shortly after 11:30 a.m., Capt. Jonathan Brooks said.

"Six one-pot method (meth) labs were discovered along with lab equipment reminicent of labs used to make meth 10 to 15 years ago," Tulsa Fire Department spokesman Stan May said Wednesday night.

"Toulene, acetone, peroxide, alumium powder, and sodium hydroxide were just a few of the chemicals found at and removed from the residence," he said.

Don Morris Alexander, 41, was arrested on complaints of endeavoring to manufacture drugs and manufacturing or selling bombs or explosives, Tulsa Jail records show.

Tragedy is often the impetus for change. 

By many accounts, the death of four Norwich firefighters during an explosion in 1962 had ripple effects that reverberated across the country —  leading to improved safety standards for first responders and major changes in the way hazardous materials are labeled, shipped and handled.

Today, vehicles carrying hazardous materials are required by federal law to have placards  — color-coded, diamond-shaped signs with numbers and symbols. In the event of an emergency, such as a fire, first responders need only consult a guidebook for general information about just how dangerous any cargo is.

 There was no such law in place on the afternoon of April 3, 1962, when Norwich firefighters responded to reports of a truck fire at the Van Tassel warehouse on Forest Street.

“This is the Van Tassel Leather Co. on Forest St. We have a truck on fire, loaded with explosives,” was the call to the fire department.

Thomas LaFreniere, 83, who was seriously injured in the explosion that was to come, said firefighters knew there were explosives on board, but not much else.

“The dispatcher said, ‘Be careful,’ ” LaFreniere said. “But our job is to extinguish the fire. When they’re running out, we’re running in.”

The subsequent explosion leveled parts of the warehouse and shattered glass windows for miles — and claimed the lives of four of the firefighters at the scene. There was an immediate outcry at the local and state levels for better regulations from the city and state after the investigation into the cause.

Norwich Fire Marshal Kenneth Scandariato said that in the 1960s, there were certain chemicals known to be volatile, but the type of response needed in a situation like Van Tassel was not well-understood.
“They were being classified from a compositional perspective, but not for safety,” Scandariato said. “There were very few training bulletins — procedures for fire departments to prepare for hazardous materials response.

“We didn’t have the equipment, the training or the organization we have today,”  he said. “Many of those things came from the Van Tassel tragedy and other incidents that began to raise attention and alarm.”

Major Carroll E. Shaw, the deputy state fire marshal in 1962, reported the load carried by the truck in question was organic peroxides —  a mix of benzoyl peroxide, methyl ethyl ketone peroxide and others shipped in wet and dry forms.

Shaw wrote that the load, was “extremely sensitive to shock, blows and impact,” and likely shifted during the 600-mile trip to Norwich from Buffalo, N.Y.

   Friday, March 2, started out as a normal warm spring day. All that changed in the late afternoon. A report was received that old dynamite had been found in a barn next to Highway 23 in Garfield. This triggered a response by the Swainsboro/Emanuel County Hazmat team and the Garfield Fire Department. A command center was established next to the fire station. 
   A hazmat technician made entry into the barn and determined that 3 sticks of commercial grade dynamite wrapped in a 1970’s newspaper were in the building. Once this was confirmed, Chief Mike Strobridge notified the GBI bomb squad and requested their response to the scene. While the bomb squad was enroute from Savannah, plans were developed for the mitigation of the hazard. The final plan was to destroy the dynamite by burning it in the open.
   Upon the arrival of the specially equipped bomb squad truck, final preparations were made. Highway 23 was shut down to all traffic, charged fire hose lines were put in place. Bales of hay were prepared to be burnt with the dynamite placed inside. After a final check by the GBI bomb technicians, an announcement “Fire in the hole” was given three times, followed by a small igniter charge starting the hay bales on fire. Within 10 minutes the fire had been reduced to a pile of glowing embers and the hazard destroyed.

ELYRIA, Ohio -- A 50-year-old Lorain County man was jailed for arson on Saturday for an explosion that injured him in his Elyria office on Friday.
Police said Robert Shaw of LaGrange was mixing chemicals to build exploding targets for firearm target practice when one blew up around 9 a.m. in the office at Diamond Products on Prospect Avenue.
He was treated for burns on his face and arms and held overnight for observation at MetroHealth Medical Center before being arrested on suspicion of aggravated arson.
No one else was injured and damage was limited to the office, police said. Diamond Products, a tool-making business that does not work with explosives, was evacuated for several hours while Elyria police, the Elyria Fire Department, the Lorain County Bomb Squad and agents from the federal bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms examined the scene.
Elyria police Lt. Andy Eichenlaub said a search of Shaw's pickup truck turned up more chemicals and an unspecified firearm. Other unidentified powders and liquids were found in his home on Whitney Road.
Shaw's wife and daughter were evacuated as a precaution, Eichenlaub said at a press conference with the FBI on Saturday afternoon.
Whitney Road remained closed at Ohio 301 while a search continued by local, county and federal authorities. The 52nd Civil Support Group of the Ohio National Guard, experts in explosives, set up their mobile lab at the rural house.
Shaw is licensed to carry a concealed weapon. He has no criminal background or known association with a terrorist group, Eichenlaub said.

COLEBROOK - The owner of the Black Mag plant in Colebrook, where two men were killed and one severely injuried in a 2010 explosion, has been indicted on manslaughter and negligent homicide charges.

Craig Sanborn was indicted by the Coos County Grand Jury in connection with the May 14, 2010, explosion that killed Jesse Kennett, 49, and Donald Kendall, 56. A third employee was injured in an explosion at the plant that once produced gunpowder.

The explosion at Millennium Design Muzzleloaders plant in the Colebrook Industrial Park rocked downtown Colebrook. Coos County Attorney Robert McKeel said the indictments handed down late Friday.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials said they were not aware of the plant before the explosion, but afterwards concluded there were huge safety problems and blamed Sanborn, who denied being at fault.

An OSHA investigation determined that the workers had been required to hand feed powder into operating equipment. Following the investigation, OSHA issued the plant 54 workplace safety and health citations with penalties totaling $1.2 million.

FORT WAYNE, Ind.— Several bombs and bomb-making materials were found at the Fort Wayne apartment of a man suspected of causing an explosion that blew off one of his hands, police said Tuesday.

Police were not releasing the name of the 43-year-old man because he is a suspect in an investigation, Officer Raquel Foster said. She said police do not yet know why he had the materials in his apartment but that he is not believed to be a terror suspect.

Early indications are that explosives are the man's hobby, Foster said. Police found containers of chemicals and jars and vials of different powders inside the apartment. Foster said authorities were still trying to determine what some of the materials are, but she said authorities do believe they were ingredients to make explosives.

Foster said owning the material is not illegal, but mixing them to make explosives is.

FARMINGTON -- Sgt. Ken Grimes is worried a public statement about a homemade explosive detonated recently in Farmington sent the wrong message.

It described the explosive as being made of paper products -- consistent with homemade fireworks -- but failed to explain the differences between fireworks and illegal homemade explosives, according to Grimes, of the fire marshal's office.

The confusion surfaced just days after a new law made the sale and personal use of fireworks legal in Maine, leaving Grimes questioning what people actually know about the legality of explosives.

"Even though the fireworks law passed, it's still illegal to make an explosive device," he said.

The initial statement, released in an email from the Department of Public Safety, was based on Grimes' comments about his office's investigation of the incident, in which a homemade explosive was detonated on a remote farm road two weeks ago in Farmington.

KOB Eyewitness News 4 has learned why a retired Sandia Labs scientist may have been building bombs in the East Mountains before he died.

KOB first reported this weekend about the makeshift lab discovered near Estancia.

Now the Sheriff of Torrance County said it could be a long time before these chemicals are cleaned up.

Sheriff Heath White said it appears former Sandia Labs scientist, 81-year-old David O'Keefe spent his retirement on the outskirts of Estancia on state road 41, continuing his work up until he died a few months ago.

"He was trying to make a new type of explosive so he was experimenting with different chemicals and different compounds to make that explosive," White said.

White said O'Keefe's laboratory was elaborate and potentially deadly.

"Everybody within about a half a mile radius of this house was at high risk everyday…every night," White explained.

Deputies discovered the explosives Saturday when the landlord of the property went to check on the home and found the chemicals.

Now it looks like the owner is going to have to pay for the cleanup, which is an estimated $50,000.

"There's not really any way for her to get back that money so it's placing her in a really bad situation," White said.

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - New Mexico State Police have blown up the final batch of explosives found inside of a personal laboratory.

The man who built the explosives, had them stored in a shed on his property, much to the surprise of police and his neighbors.

His collection of explosives was so large that it filled two large storage sheds as well as a lab. Everywhere you look: dangerous chemicals and hybrid, experimental explosives.

ESTANCIA, N.M. (KRQE) - The discovery of what is being called an explosives laboratory operated by a now-deceased scientist has shut down a state highway and drawn local and federal authorities to a home in rural Torrance County.

Sheriff Heath White said a section of State Road 41 likely will be closed for at least the rest of Saturday and likely into Sunday while explosives experts dismantle the lab.

About four miles of the highway are closed from two miles south of Estancia south to State Road 542, and residents of nearby homes have been evacuated.

The FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and a New Mexico National Guard team are on the scene, White added.

Authorities confirmed a landlord discovered the lab at about 10 a.m. Friday when she went to check on the house, which had been rented by a man who recently died.

LOS ANGELES—A Los Angeles man has been sentenced to five years in prison for illegally storing a huge amount of toxic chemicals and explosive hazardous waste, including unstable gunpowder, in his home.

Federal prosecutors say Monday's sentence of 64-year-old Edward Wyman was the stiffest penalty issued by a federal judge in California relating to a hazardous waste case. U.S. District Court Judge George King also ordered Wyman to pay $800,000 to the Environmental Protection Agency for costs associated with a 47-day clean-up.

Wyman was convicted in April of violating the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

Authorities found a cache of decades-old gunpowder and other hazardous waste in June 2009 when a fire broke out at Wyman's house. Exploding ammunition forced firefighters to wear bulletproof vests while battling the fire.

BUTTONWILLOW, Calif. -- An oilfield exploration rig that was carrying explosives caught fire Friday afternoon, shutting down part of Interstate 5.
Kern County firefighters and hazmat crews were sent out to the intersection of Interstate 5 and Tracy Avenue near Buttonwillow after reports of a fire.
Crews said that when they arrived, they heard an explosion and immediately secured the area.
The driver of the rig told officials that there were detonators and explosives inside the vehicle.
The rig was quickly extinguished and the roads were reopened about 3:20 p.m.

(AP)  SYDNEY — Australian environment officials ordered Orica Ltd., the world's largest explosives maker, to shut down one of its plants Thursday, a day after the company was charged over a gas leak that exposed a community to a cancer-causing compound.

The New South Wales state Environment Protection Agency said the Melbourne-based company's performance at the plant near the coastal city of Newcastle had been unacceptable. Wednesday's charges against Orica came just hours before another leak at the plant sent two railyard workers to the hospital.

"Last night, I telephoned the CEO of Orica and I told him the performance of Orica was unsatisfactory and it needed to improve," Deputy Chief Executive of Environment Regulation Greg Sullivan said. "I also made clear that the series of events we've had at Orica are disturbing, and both the regulator and the community need to have confidence they can operate that plant safely."

Orica came under fire after a leak from the plant on Aug. 8 sent the carcinogen hexavalent chromium into the air. Traces of the compound were found in the Newcastle suburb of Stockton, sending residents into a panic.

JACKSON, CA - Calaveras County bomb squad detonated a box of dynamite that was found inside an old outbuilding on French Bar Road Wednesday around 11:30 p.m.

The denotation created a small flash then a small boom, said Amador County Sheriff's Dispatch. The fire burned for another 15 minutes before it was extinguished.

Around 8 p.m., crews soaked the dynamite in an acetone oil compound desensitized the crystallize dynamite, Calaveras County Sheriff's Bomb Squad' Josh Crabtree said. Crews then moved the dynamite from the outbuilding then set it on fire.

Crabtree said this is the most crystallized dynamite he has seen.

"We always go worst case scenario, so we're not taking any chances with this," Crabtree said. "This is very old dynamite. It's been in this house for over 20 years."

A chemical explosion on Wednesday at the University of Pittsburgh's Chevron Science Center burned a graduate student on his face, chest and arms.

The student, 30, was working in a hooded research area in Room 1123 about 10 a.m. when his beaker, which contained mercury perchlorate hydrate, broke. The chemical can explode if not handled properly, but the cause of the incident remains under investigation.

The student was conscious when medics took him to UPMC Presbyterian in stable condition, said police, who did not release the man's name or say how severe his burns were.

Safety officials evacuated the building at the corner of Bigelow Boulevard and Parkman Avenue. Pitt Police Chief Timothy Delaney did not know how many people were in the building at the time of the explosion.

School is not in session. The building is the university's chemistry center and is a mix of classrooms and labs. Pitt spokesman John Fedele said researchers work at the center year-round.

ORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) - Two sticks of dynamite were found in a Portsmouth residence on Monday.

According to police spokeswoman Jan Westerbeck, members of the HAZMAT unit and police department were called to the 3800 block of Yaupon Street at 12:18 p.m. about explosives in a home.

Westerbeck said family members of a man who recently passed away were cleaning out the house when someone found two sticks of dynamite in a dresser drawer.

The Virginia Sate Police Bomb Unit was called in and took possession of the dynamite.

LIVINGSTON -- Police arrested high school teacher Japhia Smith Huhndorf on Wednesday afternoon after officials say they found a vial of nitroglycerin in her chemistry lab at Livingston High School — her second arrest this week.
Police said they found about 4 milliliters of the explosive compound during an investigation, which sparked a schoolwide evacuation Wednesday. The 34-year-old chemistry teacher was arrested at her Atwater home the same day.
"We brought her here to the high school, and with her cooperation we were able to locate a small amount of nitroglycerin explosives," said Livingston police Sgt. Ray Fong.

Nitroglycerin can be used to make explosives and isn't normally found in a chemistry lab, according to Fong.
"That's an explosive substance, very volatile. Not really something you want to leave around," he explained. "It can go off with very little provocation."
The Merced Police Department Bomb Squad destroyed the nitroglycerin Wednesday afternoon, according to Fong. He said detectives are questioning Huhndorf about why she had the substance in her classroom.

Nagpur, May 19 (IANS) At least four people were critically injured in a major fire that broke out following a blast at an explosives factory near Nagpur in Maharashtra, police said here Thursday.

"The fire broke out following a chemical blast in Dhaga village premises of AMA Industries that manufactures explosives," an official from Kalmeshwar police station told IANS.

According to an eyewitness, the entire factory building has collapsed due to the blast that took place at one of the chemical tankers lodged at the factory.

Police, however, said they were looking into the exact cause of the fire and awaiting more details.

At the Czech plant in Pardubice fragments of bodies have been recovered after the blast there.

The incident occurred on Wednesday. Nitroglycerin exploded at the chemical plant Explosia. 2 buildings were wiped out entirely, 9 people were injured. 4 people, present at the chemical plant at the time of the tragedy, are listed missing.

Police will continue to search through the rubble at the epicenter of the explosion. It is likely the death toll will increase. 

STATE COLLEGE — Police evacuated a square block in the Holmes-Foster neighborhood Monday night aftera large amount of old, commercial explosives were found in a garage.

Reported at about 4:30 p.m., the discovery at 242 S. Gill St. prompted police and the Alpha Fire Company to close the 600 block of West Foster Avenue, the west side of the 200 block of Gill Street, the 200 block of South Sparks Street and the 600 block of West Highland Alley for several hours.

State College Police Chief Tom King said the explosives, located at the back of the property in a detached building, were at least two decades old. He would not say how many were found or what type they were. In a news release issued early this morning, he said they were found by a resident, and that they had begun to deteriorate.

But, he said, police do not suspect criminal intent.

POTOMAC, Md. (WUSA) -- Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Graham says hazmat and explosives crews are on scene at a home in the 9200 block of Inglewood Drive in Potomac on Wednesday night.

According to the chief, they are investigating an odor coming from a house there. Indications are that the smell comes from some sort of explosive material.

No explosives have been seen.

A Major fire broke out at a chemical factory in Vatva GIDC area on Monday morning. No casualty was reported.

Bright Dyes and Chemicals is located in GIDC Phase II, and owned by Sanjay Patel and Ashok Prajapati, who allegedly fled along with the staff soon after fire broke out with a series of blasts, said a Fire Brigade official. The official added that the people nearby informed them about the incident around 10.30 am.

Chief fire officer M F Dastoor and his deputy Rajesh Bhatt said they suspect that the factory was functioning without obtaining explosives licence and that is why the owners fled and did not contact the authorities after the mishap.

Malfunctioning of some equipment is believed to be the reason behind the fire, but the exact cause is yet to be ascertained.

SUDBURY, Mass. -- The bomb squad was called to a home in Sudbury for a possible explosive device on Thursday by a mom who was suspicious of her teenage son. Hazmat crews were also on hand.

State and local police continue to keep a close eye on the home at 28 Firecut Lane, where the bomb squad destroyed a device they called potentially hazardous and explosive on Thursday.

“It’s frightening. The family is a very nice family,” said Steve Saloman, neighbor. “We’ve actually hired the boy to help out with snow removal during the winter.”

Neighbors say the family at the house includes two teenage boys and younger children.

Investigators say the mother came to the police station and explained that one of her sons was mixing chemicals.

The boy told them the chemicals were in a bottle in the house.

Using a remote control robot and an explosive charge of their own, police say the bomb squad rendered the mixture safe.

A potentially dangerous device found in a Boone mailbox led authorities to seek help from a Wilkes County explosives team and close Roby Greene Road for more than two hours Sunday evening.
A resident in the 3000 block of Roby Greene Road opened the roadside mailbox to find an unusual item, prompting a call to 911 at about 4 p.m., according to an e-mail from Sheriff Len Hagaman.
Officers from the Watauga County Sheriff's Office who arrived at the scene requested that the Meat Camp Volunteer Fire Department and the Wilkes County Explosive Ordinance Division also respond.
The team determined that the object was a chemical catalyst/reaction vessel similar to others that have surfaced in Wilkes and Caldwell counties, Hagaman said.
The items are very dangerous and use several highly reactive chemicals. Anyone who finds a similar object should not touch or go near it, as they can react violently and cause burns, severe injuries or death, Hagaman said.
The road was closed to traffic until about 6:30 p.m. while the officers removed the device, which is being processed for evidence.

An attorney for the owners of the "bomb house" property near Escondido has demanded at least $500,000 for his clients' loss and distress, according to a claim filed with San Diego County.
In a dramatic operation that captured national attention, authorities burned the single-story residence to the ground on Dec. 9, 2010, to destroy what they said was its huge and highly unstable stockpile of explosives.
They said fire was the only safe way to neutralize the homemade bomb materials found throughout the cluttered house just west of Interstate 15 and north of El Norte Parkway. Authorities said the explosives included the same destructive compounds as those used in recent terrorist plots.

DENVER -- The Colorado Department of Transportation reopened the westbound Interstate 70 lanes approaching the Eisenhower Tunnel at midnight Tuesday after a truck crash on the west side involving a tanker truck carrying hazardous materials.
The tanker truck was carrying an estimated 40,000 pounds of an explosive gel when it was involved in a collision with a heavy tow truck about 2:34 p.m.
Both drivers were injured and were taken to Summit Medical Center in Frisco, according to CDOT.
A tanker carrying such hazardous substances normally would have been routed over Loveland Pass, U.S. Highway 6, but CDOT said that highway had been closed due to the snowstorm.
"The explosive gel is considered stable inside the container, but the concern is that static electricity could cause an explosion," said CDOT spokesman Steve Lipsher. "As a result, crews are remaining a third of a mile away."

Explosions could be heard for miles.

Residents were turned away from their homes.

Madera County Sheriff's Deputies say it's all because of what was found inside an Oakhurst home in the area of Highway 41 and Highway 49.

"The only thing that I can tell you that they have been able to confirm is yes, this is a hazmat situation, it is not a bomb scare," Erica Stuart, Madera County Sheriff's Department, said.

Deputies were first called to the home Wednesday, after receiving reports of pipe bomb inside.

The pipe bomb turned out to be something else.

But what they did find warranted a call to several different agencies.

"You've got fire, you've got the bomb squad, you have hazmat, environmental health, you have the sheriff's department," Stuart said.

Deputies are being tight lipped about what exactly was found inside the home.

ESCONDIDO, Calif. -- Mass evacuations, the closing of a major freeway and containment of flames are just a few of the logistics being worked out in advance of the burning of a North County house that's been called a homemade bomb factory.
Officials have been holding meetings behind closed doors as they try to organize the huge operation planned for next week. On Thursday, crews will begin cutting back trees and brush around the house on Via Scott.
The burn was planned after bomb technicians and Hazmat crews discovered homemade explosives and hazardous chemicals strewn throughout the house rented by 54-year-old George Jakubec, who according to a search warrant released Wednesday confessed to robbing three banks and trying to rob one of them twice.
Pictures taken inside the house showed clutter on every surface. Mixed in with that clutter, were grenade casings, a jar of explosives, blasting caps, and chemicals. A huge wall will be built around the entire house before firefighters light the house in fire.

An explosion at a China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) oil storage terminal in Yunnan province, south west China, on 15 October was apparently caused by the ignition of residual oil in an oil tank while the workers were welding it.

The oil storage is owned by Sinopec but had been rent to a local private operator.

Four workers were wounded in the blaze and hospitalised. Twenty-four fire engines rushed to the scene.

ACCESS to Teewah Beach is currently closed following the discovery of a chemical device which may be dangerous to the public.

The phosphorus position device appears to have washed up onshore.

Queensland Fire and Rescue Service Chemical Unit is on route to decontaminate the device at the scene.

4WD motorists and members of the public have been advised that Teewah Beach, north of Noosa, is closed pending the unit's findings.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--Tuesday afternoon CMPD Bomb Squad along with Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and ATF completed “render safe” procedures at 10622 Mt. Holly Road.  This is the house of teenager, Jessie Bauguess, who was arrested after a pen explosion at Turning Point Academy School. 
 
Members of the Arson Task Force and CFD Hazmat are currently processing the scene for evidence and are awaiting arrival of EPA experts for evaluation of final clean up procedures.
 
Based on the investigation of the Arson Task Force and response to 10622 the CMPD Bomb Squad has identified the explosive used in the detonation at Turning Point School Monday.  This explosive is extremely potent and unstable.  During initial testing of a minute sample of the material, a spontaneous detonation injured three members of the CFD HazMat response team which was assisting the CMPD Bomb Squad and Arson Task Force. All three members were treated and released for injuries which could have been more devastating.

NORWOOD (FOX19) - Suspicious liquid, bomb-making items and booklets on how to make bombs were found Sunday Morning in a Norwood storage space.

Norwood police say someone was cleaning out a unit after the person died... when they found the items around 11:00 Sunday morning.

The Cincinnati Fire Department Bomb Squad and a hazmat unit were called out to dispose of the materials in the 4900 block of Franklin Avenue.

SYRACUSE, Utah (ABC 4 News) - What appears to have started out as a teen aged prank has blown up into a full scale felony case of bomb-making in this Utah bedroom community.
With a few household items -- a plastic soda op bottle, a roll of aluminum foil and a popular household cleaner -- kids are building bombs that make the old cherry bombs look like firecrackers and can blow off an arm.
Teenagers call them "bottle bombs," "cleaner bombs," or "works bombs," after the brand of cleaner used to make them. Public safety officials call them chemical weapons.
"There've been reports of explosions that will actually break bones and take fingers off," says Syracuse Fire Captain Kyle Nance.
You can watch people – mostly teen aged boys – injure themselves, playing with these homemade explosives.
While most amateur pyro-technicians walk away without losing a limb, most of them seem completely unaware of the danger of the smoky residue after each blast, and walk or stand in it. They too are suffering injury from these explosions.

Crowley Police have made three arrests into a matter which has been under investigation for the past several weeks. Police say there are possibly more arrest to come. The incident stems from a September 5th incident which occurred on Fairway Dr. in Crowley.

Police received a complaint that an object believed to be a homemade bomb had been located on the property. Crowley Police along with Crowley Fire Department and State Police Hazmat responded to the scene.

"Our investigation into this matter has revealed that the persons involved in this matter were juveniles. There was no intent to cause damage or injury, however state law was violated under Manufacturing of an Incendiary Device" stated Chief K.P. Gibson.

The three juveniles were charged and are pending court action. Other juveniles are being looked at for their possible role in this incident. "Our concern comes as these young people do not understand the seriousness of what could have happened. They thought that they were playing a joke, but in reality put fear into citizens" stated Chief Gibson. "My concern is that someone, including the young people who made these devices could have been injured. Mixing chemicals to make an explosive device is not a game and will not be tolerated" stated Chief Gibson.

Due to the suspects being juveniles, their names cannot be released.

According to Dan Moon with the Berkeley County Sheriff's department, a truck carrying highly explosive material overturned. Material spilled from the truck.

He says even a little spark can cause a major explosion. So they have evacuated homes and businesses along the road and in the area.

There are numerous officials on the scene, including officials from the Naval weapon station, coast guard, Berkeley County EMS and three fire departments

An explosion at a chemical factory belonging to China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), located in Fushun, Liaoning Province around noon on Tuesday has left two people injured. But no deaths have been reported.

Black smoke was seen billowing from the factory near the east gate of the compound.

CNPC is China's largest oil and gas producer and supplier, and the No.3 petrochemical factory was condoned off soon after the explosion, according to Liaoshen Evening News, a local daily.

Witnesses said that windows as far as 150 meters away from the blast were shattered.

DECATUR, AL (WAFF) - Residents at Summer Manor Apartments in Decatur say, around 9:30 Monday night, they heard what sounded like a bomb going off.

"I mean, it was a loud boom," said resident Larry Johnson.

Within minutes, rescue workers cleared out the building, evacuating about 75 people, but many say they didn't even know what happened.

"When I walked outside and smelled the fumes, I knew something wasn't right. I just didn't know what," added Johnson.

Police say one of their neighbors, 81-year-old Larry Gene Thurman had set off one of several homemade bombs in his third floor room.

ROCKLAND - Authorities recovered explosives during a raid of a Rockland home on Thursday night, the fire marshal’s office said.

The man arrested is a man police know well for this type of offence.

Robert Rinaldi has been arrested several times for making explosives, most recently in Plymouth in 2008.

Rinaldi was arrested and charged with multiple counts of manufacturing fireworks, possession of explosives and possession of component parts. The suspect could be the first person charged with possession of component parts since a new bill was passed that can punish people for having the parts for an explosive but have not assembled them yet.

ROCKVILLE — A UConn physics professor whose Storrs neighborhood was evacuated when his 13-year-old son detonated a homemade bomb in January routinely helped the boy make bombs and had some of the ingredients shipped to his work address, police said.

That and other details of the state's case against Juha Javanainen are laid out in a warrant for his arrest. Javanainen, 56, was charged June 16 with first-degree reckless endangerment and risk of injury to a minor.

Javanainen appeared briefly Friday in Superior Court in Rockville, where his case was continued to Sept. 17. He continues to work as a professor at the University of Connecticut, his lawyer, Mark Hauslaib, said outside the courtroom.

Javanainen's son also was arrested; his case is in juvenile court.