ACID QUESTION POPS UP AGAIN IN CITY; BOMB SQUAD, FIREFIGHTERS REMOVE JAR THAT SAT IDLE 18 YEARS.(Local)

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | August 29, 2001 | Copyright

Byline: Pam Greene Staff writer

A glass canning jar filled with brown liquid sat undisturbed on a shelf in the basement of Paul Wheelock's Butternut Street home for 18 years.

On Tuesday, police and fire officials donned protective suits and gingerly carried the jar, believed to contain potentially explosive picric acid, out of his home, at 1224 Butternut. No one was injured.

Wheelock, who lives there with his three dogs, called the fire department about 2 p.m. to remove the jar, in which the liquid had started to crystallize. He had read newspaper ...

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