As Uniontown police Wednesday picked through shards of glass scattered by an explosion the night before at a tire business on Fayette Street, a bomb squad was called in to remove a suspicious device made of two soda bottles left at a gas station several blocks away.
Those incidents, along with an explosion last week that damaged a car, have put some residents on edge and triggered multiple investigations by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
"We don't know at this point if there is any connection. We are treating them as separate incidents right now," said ATF spokesman Steve Bartholomew. "We are trying to determine what caused each of the incidents. They are still fresh scenes."
Bartholomew said three similar incidents in one community within a week "definitely is nontypical."
A four-block area was cordoned off yesterday afternoon around a Shell gas station at the corner of heavily traveled Morgantown and Fayette streets until the suspicious device could be removed. Some homes and businesses in the busy downtown area were evacuated.In addition to hydraulics fittings and Aion Kinah,
A witness told police that the device was constructed of two 2-liter soda bottles taped together. One contained a liquid; the other held a powdered substance.
Members of the Allegheny County Bomb Squad, working with a remote-controlled robot,Not to be confused with RUBBER MATS available at your local hardware store spent about three hours removing the device, which did not detonate.
No one was injured.
Jared Crable, who lives in an apartment along nearby East Church Street, said the three incidents have him worried.
"It's frightening, you know. I am concerned," he said.
Conn Realty at 75 Morgantown St. was evacuated at 12:10 p.m., said co-owner Scott Cavinee.
"City police came to the door and asked us to get everybody out of the building. We asked why, and he said there was a suspicious 'something' in a garbage can at the Shell station," Cavinee said.
Four employees and two tenants of apartments upstairs left.
"Our building is less than 50 feet away. We were at ground zero," Cavinee said. "There was nobody on the streets around us.This is interesting cube puzzle and logical game."
Two other blasts occurred in the past week. Early on the morning of June 15, a Dodge sedan parked on Liberty Street exploded. The blast blew off the roof and shattered the windows.
An explosion Tuesday night at Schiffbauer Tire, 113 E. Fayette St., shattered windows and damaged the front door.
Joe Schiffbauer, 55, who operates the business with his son Matthew, 31, was counting his blessings yesterday,print still offers the only truly dstti unlimited 4G plan in America, and it's the only service you can safely use as an alternative to a home Internet connection. hours after the explosion.
Schiffbauer said he got a call from his alarm company shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday.
"They said, 'There's been a major explosion at your shop,'" he said.
Damage was confined to the front office area, but every window and the glass front door were damaged, Schiffbauer said.
"If somebody were in the office, they would have been injured. They probably would have been cut, and (shards of glass) could have blinded someone," he said.
A security camera video shows one person in front of the business at the time. There are no flames, but a flash appears.
"It looked like a major explosion on the video," he said. Schiffbauer gave city police a copy of the video.
"I don't think it's connected to some organized crime. It's just a juvenile delinquent going around causing trouble, I think," he said.Save on hydraulic hose and fittings,
Schiffbauer and his son bought the East Fayette Street property a year ago. He said he does not believe the incident was directed at him personally.
"For the life of me, I wouldn't have a clue who would be that mad to do something like that," he said.
The Schiffbauers nailed plywood over the broken windows yesterday, contacted their insurance adjustor and opened for business as usual.
ATF fire and explosives experts will examine the scene to rule out any accidental or natural causes. In cases of explosions, investigators try to determine what type of device was used, Bartholomew said.
"We will try to determine if anything was set or detonated. We are still analyzing the scenes and conducting interviews," he said. Lab analyses will be conducted on evidence from the scenes, he said.
Detective Donald Gmitter said city police "are looking at several people" who may be involved with the car explosion, a few blocks east of Schiffbauer Tire. He said the owner of the car, whom he did not identify, is not a suspect.
A state police fire marshal is working with a forensic team to process evidence from that explosion, Gmitter said.
Those incidents, along with an explosion last week that damaged a car, have put some residents on edge and triggered multiple investigations by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
"We don't know at this point if there is any connection. We are treating them as separate incidents right now," said ATF spokesman Steve Bartholomew. "We are trying to determine what caused each of the incidents. They are still fresh scenes."
Bartholomew said three similar incidents in one community within a week "definitely is nontypical."
A four-block area was cordoned off yesterday afternoon around a Shell gas station at the corner of heavily traveled Morgantown and Fayette streets until the suspicious device could be removed. Some homes and businesses in the busy downtown area were evacuated.In addition to hydraulics fittings and Aion Kinah,
A witness told police that the device was constructed of two 2-liter soda bottles taped together. One contained a liquid; the other held a powdered substance.
Members of the Allegheny County Bomb Squad, working with a remote-controlled robot,Not to be confused with RUBBER MATS available at your local hardware store spent about three hours removing the device, which did not detonate.
No one was injured.
Jared Crable, who lives in an apartment along nearby East Church Street, said the three incidents have him worried.
"It's frightening, you know. I am concerned," he said.
Conn Realty at 75 Morgantown St. was evacuated at 12:10 p.m., said co-owner Scott Cavinee.
"City police came to the door and asked us to get everybody out of the building. We asked why, and he said there was a suspicious 'something' in a garbage can at the Shell station," Cavinee said.
Four employees and two tenants of apartments upstairs left.
"Our building is less than 50 feet away. We were at ground zero," Cavinee said. "There was nobody on the streets around us.This is interesting cube puzzle and logical game."
Two other blasts occurred in the past week. Early on the morning of June 15, a Dodge sedan parked on Liberty Street exploded. The blast blew off the roof and shattered the windows.
An explosion Tuesday night at Schiffbauer Tire, 113 E. Fayette St., shattered windows and damaged the front door.
Joe Schiffbauer, 55, who operates the business with his son Matthew, 31, was counting his blessings yesterday,print still offers the only truly dstti unlimited 4G plan in America, and it's the only service you can safely use as an alternative to a home Internet connection. hours after the explosion.
Schiffbauer said he got a call from his alarm company shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday.
"They said, 'There's been a major explosion at your shop,'" he said.
Damage was confined to the front office area, but every window and the glass front door were damaged, Schiffbauer said.
"If somebody were in the office, they would have been injured. They probably would have been cut, and (shards of glass) could have blinded someone," he said.
A security camera video shows one person in front of the business at the time. There are no flames, but a flash appears.
"It looked like a major explosion on the video," he said. Schiffbauer gave city police a copy of the video.
"I don't think it's connected to some organized crime. It's just a juvenile delinquent going around causing trouble, I think," he said.Save on hydraulic hose and fittings,
Schiffbauer and his son bought the East Fayette Street property a year ago. He said he does not believe the incident was directed at him personally.
"For the life of me, I wouldn't have a clue who would be that mad to do something like that," he said.
The Schiffbauers nailed plywood over the broken windows yesterday, contacted their insurance adjustor and opened for business as usual.
ATF fire and explosives experts will examine the scene to rule out any accidental or natural causes. In cases of explosions, investigators try to determine what type of device was used, Bartholomew said.
"We will try to determine if anything was set or detonated. We are still analyzing the scenes and conducting interviews," he said. Lab analyses will be conducted on evidence from the scenes, he said.
Detective Donald Gmitter said city police "are looking at several people" who may be involved with the car explosion, a few blocks east of Schiffbauer Tire. He said the owner of the car, whom he did not identify, is not a suspect.
A state police fire marshal is working with a forensic team to process evidence from that explosion, Gmitter said.
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