The disposal came after the police received an order from
Municipal Trial Court in Cities Presiding Judge Rene Romero Jr., directing them
to “transmit and deliver the confiscated illegal firecrackers and pyrotechnic
devices” to the police regional civil security unit in Palo, Leyte.
However, for safety reasons, the local EOD preferred to dispose of
the items in the city rather than transporting it to the regional police
office, said Philippine National Police (PNP) regional EOD chief Senior Insp.
Franklin Romeo Parangan.
“The pyrotechnics are dangerous for a long travel for it might
explode on the way. And besides, the region has no storage area, that is why it
was decided to crush it up here,” Parangan said.
When the crushed firecrackers and pyrotechnics were set on fire,
the smoke produced reached about a hundred meters high and lasted more than an
hour.
The city police has no storage designed for confiscated
explosives. For several months, the pyrotechnics were laid at the open space
and were exposed to rain and intense sunlight.
The police had earlier confiscated the boxes of firecrackers and
pyrotechnic devices illegally sold in the market.
The EOD is an operation support group of the PNP mandated to
conduct safe disposal of all bombs and neutralization of hazards from chemical,
nuclear, and improvised explosive devices. (ERR/PNA)
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