Bomb Squad responding to Alert in Dublin City Center?

homerjay2005 · 01-10-2010 1:54pm

http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/royal-college-of-surgeons-calls-in-bomb-disposal-team-475940.html

Piste · 01-10-2010 1:54pm

Do you know which building it was? 123 or the modern one?

Pudsy33 · 01-10-2010 1:59pm

Piste wrote: »

Do you know which building it was? 123 or the modern one?

123. Was a compound called picric acid, highly explosive when solidified. College should reopen within the hour

stovelid · 01-10-2010 2:00pm

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Don't worry whole place evacuated

Cadaver big job on their hands to clear the RCSI that quickly.

Piste · 01-10-2010 2:00pm

My friend just said "Pitric Acid was found stored dangerously during a health & safety inspection. It's explosive (kind of like TNT) so they had to call in the bomb squad to remove it." Shouldn't be too serious so.

Biggins · 01-10-2010 2:05pm

Piste wrote: »

My friend just said "Pitric Acid was found stored dangerously during a health & safety inspection. It's explosive (kind of like TNT) so they had to call in the bomb squad to remove it." Shouldn't be too serious so.

Sounds like someone is going to get their hands slapped over something.

jackiebaron · 01-10-2010 2:07pm

Piste wrote: »

Oh dear, it's Freshers' week and I'm meant to be partying it up in RCSI tonight

/selfish

I really hope it's nothing serious, I've a lot of friends in there at tutorials at the moment =/

Will you be getting bombed?

Piste · 01-10-2010 2:10pm

Hopefully only in one way.

-Leelo- · 01-10-2010 2:18pm

jackiebaron wrote: »

Will you be getting bombed?

:pac:

Professey Chin · 01-10-2010 2:19pm

Renn wrote: »

For a year old picture of the scene? Good thinking sir!

Im in the future.....

GizAGoOfYerGee · 01-10-2010 2:24pm

homerjay2005 wrote: »

just been announed on the Radio, anybody know anything about it? Stephens green west and york street area.

Can´t see anything on Google Street View

NothingMan · 01-10-2010 2:27pm

GizAGoOfYerGee wrote: »

Can´t see anything on Google Street View

Eh. That's not quite how...... nevermind.

mack81 · 01-10-2010 2:31pm

GizAGoOfYerGee wrote: »

Can´t see anything on Google Street View

Oh Dear!!!

Simplenough · 01-10-2010 2:31pm

GizAGoOfYerGee wrote: »

Can´t see anything on Google Street View

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actuallylike · 01-10-2010 2:33pm

Renn wrote: »

For a year old picture of the scene? Good thinking sir!

NothingMan wrote: »

Eh. That's not quite how...... nevermind.

mack81 wrote: »

Oh Dear!!!

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frank reynolds · 01-10-2010 2:35pm

ooooh it'd be lovely if they took out coppers.

biko · 01-10-2010 2:56pm

Link and content added to OP

Slydice · 01-10-2010 3:02pm

just back from it

they did a controlled explosion from what I could tell

have heard louder fireworks

also on RTE:http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1001/dublin_traffic.html

Some road closures are currently in place in Dublin city centre.

York Street, St Stephen's Green West and Mercier Street are all closed and expected to remain closed up to 3pm.

St Stephen's Green is closed at the York St junction and traffic is being diverted via Dawson St instead.
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Gardaí are advising commuters and motorists planning to travel to or through the city to expect delays.

A number of agencies, including An Garda Síochána and the Army, are currently dealing with a substance in the area which requires specialist handling.

The substance is being moved from one location in the area to another location.

Piste · 01-10-2010 3:02pm

Got an email from the college basically confirming what i said earlier in the thread

trellheim · 01-10-2010 3:46pm

that's not an acid you see every day .....
from the wiki :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picric_acid

Uses

By far the largest use has been in munitions and explosives, as discussed above.

In microscopy, picric acid is a reagent for staining samples, e.g., Gram staining. It has found some use in organic chemistry for the preparation of crystalline salts of organic bases (picrates) for the purpose of identification and characterization.

In metallurgy a picric acid etch has been commonly used in optical metallography to reveal prior austenite grain boundaries in ferritic steels. The hazards associated with picric acid has meant it has largely been replaced with other chemical etchants.

Bouin's picro-formol is a preservative solution used for biological specimens.

Workplace drug testing utilizes picric acid for the Jaffe Reaction to test for creatinine. It forms a colored complex that can be measured using spectroscopy.

Much less commonly, wet picric acid has been used as a skin dye or temporary branding agent. It reacts with proteins in the skin to give a dark brown color that may last as long as a month.

In the early 20th century, picric acid was stocked in pharmacies as an antiseptic and as a treatment for burns, malaria, herpes, and smallpox. It was most notably used for the treatment of burns suffered by victims of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937.