Recently in Rhode Island, the Office of the State Fire Marshal was called in by local law enforcement to examine a possible pipe bomb. Once the area was secured and the public was at a safe distance, the bomb squad went to work assessing the device. When they determined that it was indeed a live pipe bomb, loaded with explosives and deadly shrapnel, the responders used a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) developed tool called Power Hawk to carefully disable (or "render safe") the bomb. "Our bomb technicians engaged the Power Hawk as a non-energetic means of remotely rendering the pipe bomb safe," reported Deputy Thomas Groff, Bomb Squad Commander with the Rhode Island State Fire Marshal's Office. "We were successful in doing so." As dangerous as this scenario sounds to the general public, in listening to Groff's matter-of-fact description one might be tempted to think that this render safe operation was just another regular day at the office for bomb squad technicians. To a degree it is, but there was something different about this encounter. | | | | |
U.S. Department of Homeland Security ·
www.dhs.gov · 202-282-8000
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