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Authorities in Liberty County are searching for nearly four dozen explosive devices that fell out of a pickup truck earlier this week. Anyone who discovers the brass, bell-shaped devices is urged to leave them alone and call authorities. "It is going to be like a small grenade and there will be an internal flash fire" if they explode, Ken DeFoor, Liberty County emergency management coordinator, said today.
Fifty of the explosives, which are detonated about 250 feet underground to take seismic readings in oil fields, were being moved from one Key Energy Services construction site to another on Wednesday afternoon, DeFoor said. They had been packed in a cardboard box, which usually is placed inside a 64-quart cooler for such trips, but was not on this occasion, he said.
The truck left a Key Energy site near County Road 337 in north Liberty County about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, DeFoor was told. The driver traveled on CR 337 to Plum Grove Road and had gone about 15 miles when he noticed the box was gone. "He looked back and the tailgate was down and the box missing," DeFoor said. The cooler, which was in the truck bed with the cardboard box, also is missing.
Four teams searched on Wednesday, DeFoor said, and six of the explosives were found near the first construction site. "There are still 44 unaccounted for," he said. Officials with Key Energy Services could not be reached for comment this morning. The devices have two electrical contacts. They measure 1 1/2 inches wide, 2 inches long and 5 inches around. Besides worrying about people handling the explosives, officials are concerned that someone may try to melt them down to sell the brass.
DeFoor said he was told that they probably would not explode if stepped on, but could explode in response to a greater impact, such as being thrown against a hard object. Anyone with information about the devices is asked to call the Liberty County Sheriff's Office at 936-336-4500 or the Liberty County Emergency Management Office at 936-334-3219.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5693417.html