BOMB SQUAD CLOSES FREEWAY, EVACUATES AREA OF HOLLYWOOD.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. police evacuated a three-square-block area of Hollywood and declared a tactical alert Monday night after the bomb squad found a suspicious box and vials of an unknown liquid in front of The Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box . Officer Jason Lee, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . , said the bomb squad was called out about 6 p.m. to the 5600 block of Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. near the Hollywood Freeway to to check out a suspicious blue box with a timer and wires hanging out. When the vials with liquid were detected, the area was evacuated. The Sunset exit off the freeway was closed. A bomb squad robot was employed in the operation and eventually was used to put the vials in a container for analysis later. ``The device has been rendered safe,'' Lee said shortly before midnight. |
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