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Friday, April 22, 2016

FBI to hold explosion demo in Worcester Co. next month

After confirming the blasts wouldn’t rattle the nerves of neighbors in the vicinity, the County Commissioners on Tuesday approved a FBI request to hold a live explosives demonstration at the county’s Langmaid Road Borrow Pit in Newark.

Fire Marshall Jeff McMahon presented the proposal for a demo to be held on Friday, May 6, from 10 to 11 a.m.

“It’s all small explosives and there’s not even going to be any debris,” he said. “My FBI contact tells me the noise that will be heard would be that of a normal shot that would be used at the range anyway.”

Commissioners Bud Church and Ted Elder both expressed reservations based on a previous two-day conference last held in April 2014 called the Basic Anti-Terrorism Training for Law Enforcement (BATTEL), which brought several hundred law enforcement officials to the area.

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

...if it's so small and debris-less, why are hundreds of LEO's and FBI folk traveling, presumably, hundreds of miles to the middle of nowhere Newark MD?

Anonymous said...

Do it in the Welfare section.

Anonymous said...

Why do they have to do it here. Go do it in Aberdine where they blow stuff up all the time anyway. Something smells fishy.

Anonymous said...

An invitation to watch stuff get blown up? I'm there! The rest of you can see it on TV later.

Anonymous said...

Cover story for something!

Anonymous said...

Blowing up loads of secret files, and films.

Anonymous said...

They have been doing this for several years. Sometimes they give notice like this and other times do same day notice to residents in the area. 5 years or so ago, they blew up 25 lbs. of C-4 there. That woke some people up!