October 4, 2013
By Staff
BURLINGTON, ON. Just after 10:00 a.m., Saturday morning, a volunteer group doing maintenance in the area of Kerncliffe Park located a grenade buried in the ground.
Kerncliffe Park – site where an inert grenade was found by volunteers cleaning up the grounds.
A number of volunteers were safely evacuated and members of the Explosive Disposal Unit were summoned to the scene
It has since been determined that the grenade was inert.
A portion of green space to the west of Kerns Road and south of a nearby parkette remains cordoned off while a secondary ground search is undertaken.
There are no secondary public safety concerns at this time.
Police later declared the scene as totally safe.
