Bomb Squad Called To Olney School To Remove Unstable Chemical

OLNEY, MD — Members of the Montgomery County Fire Bomb Squad removed an "unstable chemical" from an Olney school on Wednesday morning, according to a Twitter post from Montgomery County Fire Public Information Officer Pete Piringer.

Fire units were dispatched around 11:30 a.m., to the 16200 block of Batchelors Forest Road for the report of a container of Picric acid being discovered inside the chemistry lab at the Washington Christian Academy.

The container holding the chemical did not appear to be leaking and the bomb squad was able to safely remove it from the school building, according to Piringer. No students were in the school at the time.

The chemical was taken to an isolated construction site nearby for disposal. Piringer posted a video on Twitter of the bomb squad disposing of the Picric acid around 2:30 p.m.