Posted on 06/13/2007 1:04:42 PM PDT by Calpernia
A high school was evacuated after suspicious objects were found in the building Wednesday, one day before final exams, authorities said.
The Passaic County sheriff's bomb squad removed the items, which may have been fireworks, from Wayne Valley High School and detonated them in a safe area, sheriff's spokesman Bill Maer said.
"They were definitely pyrotechnic in nature,'' Maer said. The investigation is continuing.
"We consider this very serious,'' he said.
Approximately four suspicious objects were removed from the school, Maer said. "Preliminary reports say they were found in lockers,'' he said.
Final exams at the school were scheduled to begin Thursday, according to the school's Web site, and classes end for the summer on June 21. The school is about 20 miles northwest of New York City.
New Jersey is among nine states that ban all consumer fireworks, but residents easily buy them in other states, including Pennsylvania. A New Jersey Senate committee last week approved a resolution asking Pennsylvania to ban sales of fireworks to out-of-state residents.
4 Firecrackers? 4 bottle-rockets? 4 sparklers?
That is exactly what I was thinking.
If "We consider this very serious,..." then knock off the "pyrotechnic in nature" crap....call it what it is, a bomb.
The the Bic firewand I use to start my barbecue is "pyrotechnic in nature"!
Did somebody set us up the bomb?
http://www.nj1015.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=6969&z=1
Passaic County High School Evacuated After “Pyrotechnic Devices” Found
Thursday, June 14, 2007 - Millennium Radio New Jersey
by Martin DiCaro
It might be hard to blame students at Wayne Valley High School if they can’t totally focus on their final exams today. Yesterday, 1,400 students were evacuated and a massive law enforcement response descended upon the school after suspicious devices rigged with fuses were discovered in two lockers. A bomb squad safely removed what authorities called “pyrotechnic devices” after a student had spotted a fuse sticking out from a locker door on the second floor on the building at around 9 o’clock yesterday morning. Final exams will be held as planned today.
As of Thursday morning, no arrests had been made. Authorities said the incident would not be treated as a prank. The Passaic county prosecutor said if whoever planted the devices is a legal adult, he or she faces a mandatory prison sentence if convicted on possible charges. Prosecutor James Avigliano said several students were being questioned as “persons of interest.”
The devices looked like half sticks of dynamite. They were wrapped together in packs of four and rigged with fuses. Authorities called them “pyrotechnic devices” capable of causing a damaging fire with suffocating smoke which could have panicked students into a stampede down school hallways.
The five- to six-inch long sticks were removed by a bomb squad and later detonated in a safe area, causing “a fireball and huge amount purplish-gray smoke,” said the county sheriff, Jerry Speziale.
Maybe it was a little more than fireworks.
hmmm...
Independence Day
And all I remember
Was a midnight rainbow
That fell from the sky
As I stand on the beach
I slowly surrender
To the child in me
That can't say goodbye
The rockets in the air
And the people everywhere
Put away their differences for a while
Oh I am still a child
When it comes to something wild
Oh that was the night
I painted the sky
The Night I Painted the Sky -Jimmy Buffett
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