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Nov 21, 2007 6:52 pm US/Pacific

Fake Explosive Prompts East CoCo Evacuations

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KNIGHTSEN, Contra Costa County (CBS 5 / KCBS / BCN) ― The device detonated Wednesday by a Contra Costa County bomb squad after a 1-mile radius in the unincorporated community of Knightsen was evacuated was not a genuine explosive, said Contra Costa Sheriff spokesman Jimmy Lee.

Residents were allowed to return to their homes after the bomb squad detonated the device in a safe area around 5:00 p.m. Wednesday evening.  Officials say the device in question contained road flares.

A bomb squad with the Walnut Creek Police Department arrived at 60 Broadway in Knightsen to investigate a possible explosive device found in a motor home, sheriff spokesman Jimmy Lee said.

The object discovered by Rich Mythen and his wife Shelley around 1:30 p.m. inside a mobile home they had just sold but had not visited in some time was not dynamite, as it appeared. Mythen described the object as three sticks of dynamite taped to a clock and an antenna. Rather than touch it himself, he contacted police.

Residents within a one-mile radius of the Broadway residence have been evacuated from their homes and directed to the Delta Vista Middle School on Frank Hengel Way near East Cypress Road, Lee said.

Evacuees were notified by an emergency telephone alert system that called 220 households in the area, Lee said. Residents who did not receive the call do not have to evacuate, he added.

Walnut Creek is the only city in Contra Costa County that has a bomb team at its disposal, Mark Covington of Walnut Creek police said. The team was sent out after receiving a request from the sheriff's department, which is managing the incident.

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