WINLOCK, Wash. (AP) - After the Washington State Patrol bomb squad decided the best way to deal with deteriorated, volatile explosives found in an old Lewis County barn was to burn the old building, the Winlock Fire Department did just that.
Lewis County sheriff’s Chief Deputy Stacy Brown says the property owner called the sheriff’s office Monday night after finding the explosives when he was clearing out the old building. They were there before he bought the property and apparently had been in the barn for several decades.
Brown says the building burned within minutes Tuesday.
Sheriff Steve Mansfield praised the property owner for calling for help rather than trying to pick up or transport the explosives himself.
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