Crime & Safety
Live Grenade Believed to be from Vietnam Discovered in Home Garage
Found at home in Pacifica last week.
A bomb squad disabled a live Vietnam War-era military grenade found at a home in Pacifica last week, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.
Last Wednesday around 5:25 a.m. the San Mateo County Sheriff's Bomb Squad responded to a report of a Vietnam military grenade that was inside a garage in the Linda Mar area.
The sheriff's office said the military grenade was believed to have been brought back from the Vietnam War as a souvenir.
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After the bomb squad inspected the grenade it was determined to be intact and live.
The squad then secured the grenade and took it to a remote location where it was safely mitigated, according to sheriff's officials.
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