![]() ![]() “It was a signal,” said Chris Combs of the FBI. The tripwire, officers said, also told them that the bomber was becoming more sophisticated and confident. ![]() We're not even sure if we can leave our house safely,’” Call said. It's a crime scene.’ And I remember clearly the citizen saying, ‘We're scared. components in their backyard, and telling the citizens, ‘You can't go in your backyard. “Alex and I were in the same house, standing in a house where there was shrapnel and I.E.D. “He could have put more tripwire devices out there in the area knowing that we…would be out there clearing the scene to make sure there was no secondaries,” Guerrero said.įBI agent Call said they realized they had no safe way to clear the neighborhood. They said it was a technique usually seen in war zones. The tripwire setup changed everything for law enforcement. ![]() The sign read "Drive Like Your Kids Live Here." “I just started walking slowly and I take out my flashlight because it’s getting darker and darker, and I shine my flashlight just looking and I just start doing what a soldier would do and I was like, there’s gotta be something here and I just start scanning the area.”ĪTF Special Agent and explosives enforcement officer Alex Guerrero explained that the bomber had placed the device on the ground and covered it somewhat with the sign, ran a tripwire about “three inches off the ground” and anchored it into a metal stake. I had to start thinking like I was a soldier again, in Iraq and I realized that this was a bomb,” he continued. “And look at them, look at the fence and realized that I was looking at shrapnel, and then it just clicked. ![]()
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