Dynamite Cache Burned Up
Here is something you don't run into everyday. The LAFD was involved in a controlled burn to eliminate a cache of unstable dynamite (from LAFD News & Info).
The Los Angeles Police Department had discovered approximately fifty pounds of dynamite stored inside of a refrigerator, located inside a commercial storage building.Upon examination of the dynamite, it was determined to have become so degraded and unstable as to be extremely hazardous to attempt to remove the explosives from the building. A decision was made to conduct a controlled burn of the structure in an effort to incinerate the dynamite and render it harmless.
Read the whole article. It describes in some detail how they went about this controlled burn.
