Crime & Safety
Inert World War II-Era Bomb Unearthed IN Brooksville: Hernando Sheriff
A World War II-era 1,000-pound bomb was unearthed on the future site of a college campus in Brooksville, the Hernando County sheriff said.
BROOKSVILLE, FL — A World War II-era 1,000-pound bomb was unearthed on the future site of the Wilton Simpson Technical College campus in Brooksville Tuesday, the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post.
The M-65 ordnance was dug up by the construction company building the college on the northeast corner of the Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport.
“Because it was so rusted and decayed” deputies couldn’t tell whether it was live ammunition or inert, Sheriff Al Nienhuis said in a video shared to Facebook.
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The sheriff’s office evacuated one-half mile in every direction of where the bomb was unearthed, the agency said.
The Citrus County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Team assessed the bomb and determined it was inert. A team from MacDill Air Force Base helped dispose of it.
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