Crews safely and successfully detonated dynamite found in a barn in South Kona.
The Honaunau family found the explosives during the stay-at-home order for COVID-19. Hawai‘i Police Department’s Area II Assistant Chief Robert Wagner said the dynamite belonged to a relative who had passed away.
On Thursday, the US Army EOD responded to the property, located off the highway, by Bruner Road, and performed a controlled detonation.
Wagner said the EOD team took the dynamite to an area behind the house and blew it up.
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“Dynamite (was) unstable so they could not remove it, had to blow it up in place,” Wagner stated.
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