Daily Archives: May 20, 2009

Video (with audio) from an EPA cleanup site in east Texas.  Cans of crystallized ether had to be exploded on-site.  This material is shock-sensitive, has to be handled like an unstable explosive and is too dangerous to move anywhere else.  The solution here was a “blow-in-place” scenario.  Our ATF bomb tech put the cans in shallow holes, rigged them with a small donor charge and we remote-detonated them.

Refer to the EPA web site at http://www.epaosc.org/site_profile.asp?site_id=06RZ for detailed information.