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Jul 29, 2006 12:14 pm US/Eastern

Residents Return After S. Dade Dynamite Scare

Almost 500 Residents Evacuated

by Evan Bacon
SOUTH MIAMI-DADE (CBS4 News) ― A bonfire is normally a place for friends to gather, but a bonfire in one South Miami-Dade neighborhood was no gathering place Friday night. Police used it to cook down abandoned explosives found in the neighborhood Friday, following a scare which kept the neighborhood evacuated for most of the day.

A man who lived at 24510 SW 134th Avenue was cleaning a safe Friday afternoon, when inside, he found two boxes of what appeared to be dynamite.

The Miami-Dade bomb squad was called in, and a technician in armor examined the material and found it was indeed dynamite

The area from SW 132nd Avenue to SW 137th avenue, between SW 252nd and SW 256th streets was evacuated, and residents nearby were told to stay in their homes, while police worked for hours to make the explosives safe. 80 elderly residents were ordered from their retirement home.

Because old dynamite can be unstable, police didn't want to move it. Because there was so much of it, approximately 75 pounds, they didn't not want to explode it all.

Instead, police decided to set a fire and cook the old explosives, which they believed would be a safer way to render them harmless.

The plan worked, and most people were allowed to return home Friday night.

Police don't know where the dynamite came from, or what it was doing in the safe.

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