Karlin Younger, an emergency management specialist at the Commerce Department, who originally came from Madison, Wisconsin, and who shortly after the events of Jan 6 made her way back there to Madison (rather than to her workplace in DC) where she was interviewed by a Wisconsin paper about her discovery.
https://www.cityofmadison.com/mayor/blog/mayoral-proclamation-for-madison-native-karlin-younger
Karlin Younger, grew up in Madison’s Bay Creek neighborhood and graduated from West High School in 2002. After earning her undergrad degree at UW Madison in International Relations, she worked in China, studied at Oxford and worked in London before returning to the United States and eventually settling in Washington D.C. to work for the U.S. Department of Commerce. . .On Wednesday, January 6th Ms. Younger was working remotely on the Dept. of Commerce’s FirstNet project, a communications network dedicated to first responders from her apartment a few of blocks from the U.S. Capitol; and
WHEREAS, At lunchtime, Ms. Younger decided to check on her laundry, which required her to walk to the back of her building adjacent to the Republican National Committee (RNC) building, and
WHEREAS, Because she is very observant, she saw what she initially thought was recycling but with a closer look discovered what appeared to be a pipe bomb apparently set to explode in twenty minutes, and
WHEREAS, She immediately reported the device to a guard at the RNC and local law enforcement who evacuated the block and disarmed the device with a water cannon and quickly discovered another device near the Democratic National Committee headquarters, and