Grenade Detonated; Road Reopens
POSTED: Thursday, May 8, 2008
UPDATED: 1:43 pm EDT May 8,
2008
DETROIT -- Firefighters were called to the intersection of Livernois Avenue and Wagner Road around 9 a.m. on Thursday after someone reported finding a grenade in the middle of the road.
There were no evacuations ordered, but firefighters kept passer-byers back 500 feet.
Livernois Avenue near Wagner was closed in both directions for most of the morning.
The bomb squad was called to the area and took the grenade to Patton Park in southwest Detroit to detonate it.
There were no injuries.
The roads have reopened.
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