CENTRAL NYACK – Residents
and staff had quite a scare at the Tappan Zee Manor Nursing Home on Mountainview
Avenue in Central Nyack on Friday when a suspicious device was found in
a resident’s room.
The building was evacuated and Clarkstown Town Police, along with the
Rockland County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad found two hand grenades
– believed to be World War II-era devices – in the refrigerator
of a 91-year-old male resident’s room. He was out of the facility
at the time undergoing medical treatment.
The entire facility was evacuated while the devices were removed. It turns
out one was a training grenade and the other was a metal hand grenade.
After they were removed, the bomb squad was going to x-ray them to determine
if they were live.
Once the devices were removed from the fridge and taken out of the building,
everyone was allowed to go back in.
