BRIEFLY PIPE BOMB FOUND OUTSIDE PLANT 42.PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - A pipe bomb found Monday Monday: see week. morning outside the Air Force Plant 42 fence closed down Avenue P to traffic for two hours, sheriff's deputies said. The Sheriff's Department bomb squad detonated the device where it lay just after 9 a.m., officials said. It was a plastic pipe about four or five inches long, capped at both ends with a fuse in the middle, officials said. A Plant 42 maintenance worker found the bomb laying in the dirt beside Avenue P near the 20th Street East gate, which leads to the closed Palmdale Airport Palmdale Airport may refer to: A very large airport in Palmdale, California which has 2 facilities that share its runways:
The worker alerted plant security personnel, who called the Sheriff's Department. Deputies detoured traffic off Avenue P from 25th Street East to 20th Street East, and shut down 20th Street East north of Avenue Q, until the bomb squad arrived and exploded ex·plode v. ex·plod·ed, ex·plod·ing, ex·plodes v.intr. 1. To release mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy by the sudden production of gases in a confined space: the bomb. - Daily News |
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