Hazardous Device Team – Riverside County News Source

HEMET – Sheriff’s bomb squad called out to inspect and detonate suspicious package

January 16, 2018 Trevor Montgomery

HEMET — Sheriff’s bomb squad members assisting Hemet Police Department investigating a suspicious package later detonated the item, early Monday evening, Jan. 15. The investigation caused the temporary closure of Florida Avenue, between Hamilton and Palm Avenues, in Hemet. Although details are still emerging, after members of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Hazardous Device Team detonated the suspicious package they determined it had posed […]

SAN JACINTO: Bomb scare forces evacuation of county offices, other businesses

August 16, 2017 Trevor Montgomery

SAN JACINTO — A suspicious package, found yesterday morning, Tuesday, Aug. 15, near the Riverside County Department of Child Support Services and County Probation offices brought a flood of law enforcement officials, bomb squad technicians and several bomb squad robots to inspect the item. After inspecting the package, which was found in the 1000 block of State Street in San Jacinto, authorities […]

Riverside Sheriff’s HDT members go out of their way to prove they are the bomb

April 19, 2017 Trevor Montgomery

Taking a break from their normal, day-to-day operations for a recent day of training, members of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Hazardous Device Team, otherwise known as the bomb squad, had a few extra minutes – and clearly some leftover explosive ordnance – and created a video featuring members from the department’s Hazardous Device Team. (See attached video below.) According to sheriff […]