[CPEO-MEF] Old bombs detonated at Orlando (FL) school

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Final bombs detonated at Odyssey Middle School in southeast Orange County

Rich McKay
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
January 22, 2008

Eleven explosions rocked the neighborhoods around Odyssey Middle School 
on Monday as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers detonated dozens more 
bombs and rockets unearthed on school grounds during the Martin Luther 
King Jr. holiday weekend.

The destruction of the most recent cache of munitions at the southeast 
Orlando school signaled the end of the search for World War II ordnance 
there, Army Corps officials said.

But the corps is not giving the school property, built on a former Army 
bombing range, the all-clear yet. Corps experts will return in the 
spring to test the soil for toxic chemicals, officials said.

In all, 53 fragmentation bombs, 10 rocket warheads, two rifle grenades, 
and some miscellaneous rockets and charges were detonated Monday while 
the school was closed for the King holiday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-morebombs2208jan22,0,212455.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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