Fire-Rescue News- Bomb Squad removes mortar round unearthed at construction site in Lower Township
By RICHARD DEGENER | Posted: Thursday, April 15, 2010 | 1 comment
Atlantic City Bomb Squad officers Sgt. Bud Brubaker (left) and Sgt. Jerry Barnhart, secure the ordnance inside their truck. Constructions workers discovered an unexploded military ordnance while digging behind AABA Family Medical Supply on Bayshore and E. Wilde Avenues in the Villas section of Lower Township. Officers from the Atlantic City Bomb Squad were called to dispose of the ordnance. According to AC Bomb Squad officer Sgt. Bud Brubaker, the item was a WWII type military type projectile and was live. The shell was secured and put in the bomb squad truck for transport. The ordnance was reported at 12:45 pm and a 300 ft. radius around the site was evacuated for safety. No injuries were reported. ....Continue Reading
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LOWER TOWNSHIP _ Construction workers putting an addition on a Bayshore Road medical supply business on Thursday afternoon found what police described as a mortar round.
Police evacuated all residents and commercial businesses within 300 feet of ABBA Family Medical Supply while the Atlantic City Bomb Squad was called in.
Police described the ordnance as about three inches around and more than one foot long.
Detective Sgt. Tom Keywood said the shell was buried pretty deep in the ground. He speculated it may have come from the World War II era when pilots training at Naval Air Station Wildwood shot at targets along the bay-shore. The Villas was a sleepy bayshore town at that time and the site may have been undeveloped.
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