Two military bombs removed from Glassell Park home

The Los Angeles Police Department's bomb squad on Saturday removed two live Korean War or Vietnam War-era bombs from a house in the Glassell Park neighborhood.

A man cleaning the garage of his parent's home in the 4000 block of Verdugo Road called police about 10:15 a.m. when he found two American bombs or rocket projectiles, said Sgt. Wayne Guillary of LAPD's Northeast Station.

The LAPD's bomb squad was sent to the home. Dozens of residents were evacuated within a 300-yard radius until the squad removed the bombs from the garage about 5 p.m., Guillary said.

The Verdugo off-ramp of the 2 Freeway was closed temporarily by the California Highway Patrol, Guillary added. Officials with the city's Department of Transportation were at the scene rerouting traffic, and the Los Angeles Fire Department was standing by as a precaution.

It took several hours for authorities to remove the bombs, Guillary said, adding that the bombs will be either destroyed or handed over to the military.

No injuries were reported.

-- Ruben Vives

Photo: KTLA

Comments

[tommy gunn]

Ha! I had to drive around that this morning. I hope LA Times follows through on this. How did they get there is a good start...?

[Joel Johnson]

6 and 3/4 hours to do the job, come on - milk it some more why don't you.

[jim s]

These appeared to be mortar rounds to me. I guess you could call them bombs, but they would be appropriate to flying over your target and tossing them out of a Piper Cub, rather than from some bomber sized aircraft.

Will be interesting to see if anyone publishes what they are, and where they came from.

I always like to see such rounds painted blue when they around, as I believe that is the standard for practice, inert rounds. If you ever see otherwise don't touch back away slowly then run.

[Repaxan]

Oh come on. It's not like these bombs are gonna go off in your face.