A San Joaquin County Sheriff explosives disposal team member carries a box with the chemically treated bandage in it to the bomb trailer where it was driven to the police firing range to be destroyed. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
Tracy Police seal off the entrance to Racquet Drive where the San Joaquin Sheriff’s bomb trailer waits to remove a chemically treated bandage from a home. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
A San Joaquin County Sheriff explosives disposal team members put on a bomb suit so he can remove a chemically treated bandage from a home on Racquet Drive. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
A San Joaquin County Sheriff explosives disposal team member readies equipment outside a house on Racquet Drive before they go in to remove a chemically treated bandage. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
Tracy Police blocked off the streets 60 yards in all directions from the home where a San Joaquin Sheriff’s explosives disposal team gathered to remove a chemically treated bandage. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
Emergency vehicles block off Centre Court Drive at Tracy Boulevard as the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s explosive disposal team worked to remove a chemically treated bandage. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
A San Joaquin County Sheriff’s explosive disposal team members wearing a bomb suit heads to the house on racquet Drive to remove a chemically treated bandage. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
Tracy Police crews block off Racquet Drive as San Joaquin County Sheriff’s explosive disposal team members remove a chemically treated bandage from a home. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press
The 1929 kit had been in Danante’s possession for years, he said, and recently he decided to put it up for sale. He said he priced it at $80 and didn’t think anything more about it until a Girl Scouts museum official wrote to warn him about the danger.
“She said call the bomb squad — it’s highly explosive,” said Danante as he sat outside his Racquet Drive house Thursday, July 19. “I was surprised. I’ve been handling it for years.”
According to Danante, the Scouts official told him the chemicals on the bandage used to treat burns will crystallize over time and become explosive. He said he called the Tracy police, and eventually the sheriff’s county explosive ordinance disposal team was contacted to remove the kit.
As a precaution, the area around the house on the 400 block of Racquet Drive was closed to traffic and pedestrians for 60 yards in each direction, police Lt. Dave Sant said. Residents in the area were also told to remain in their houses while the bomb squad removed the first aid kit.
“EOD was concerned enough that they asked for these precautions,” Sant said.
The bomb squad took the kit and intended to detonate it at the Tracy Police Department firing range off South Tracy Boulevard near Tracy Municipal Airport.
• Contact Denise Ellen Rizzo at 830-4225 or drizzo@tracypress.com.
Can't always trust what you find on the internet though, right?
Isn't there a nurse that posts here quite a bit that can tell us that I missed the boat?