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Pipe bomb discovery leads to temporary closure of Pier Park BY K. MICHELLE MORAN kmoran@candgnews.com

Photo by K. Michelle Moran

through a home in the 400 block of Lincoln Road the evening of June 3. As public safety officers from Grosse Pointe City, Grosse Pointe Farms and Grosse Pointe Park poured untold gallons of water onto the house to save it, the fire seemed to have other plans, with flames shooting out of the roof in spite of the torSee FIRE on page 7A

See PIPE BOMB on page 9A

Fire guts nearly 100-year-old home in Grosse Pointe City BY K. MICHELLE MORAN kmoran@candgnews.com

CITY — “That fire seems to have a life of its own.” That was an observation from Grosse Pointe City resident Michele Ullery who, like many in the community, watched in horror as a raging blaze tore

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Firefighters from Grosse Pointe City, Grosse Pointe Farms and Grosse Pointe Park battle a three-alarm fire that ripped through a home in the 400 block of Lincoln Road in Grosse Pointe City June 3.

FARMS — The discovery of a pipe bomb at Pier Park in Grosse Pointe Farms the morning of June 2 led to a complete shutdown of the park as multiple law enforcement agencies converged on the scene to check for any other explosive devices. According to a police report, a Pier Park employee discovered an unexplained metal object in a flowerbed east of the gatehouse at around 11 a.m. June 2. The bomb was found in an area inside the park, near the pedestrian drop-off area, so it’s believed to be unlikely that it was tossed there by a passing motorist on Lake Shore Road. The employee showed it to a fellow park worker, who suspected that the object — described as being about 5 inches long and an inch in diameter — was a pipe bomb, although he didn’t see a fuse. Concerned about possible safety issues, the second employee took the object with him, drove it in his Cushman vehicle to the eastern side of the park and threw the object into Lake St. Clair. Police were called, as were K-9 units and the Michigan State Police bomb squad. The MSP bomb squad arrived at approximately 12:50 p.m. and combed the area of the lake where the device had been tossed with a magnet and a rope. After about 40 minutes of unsuccessful searching and the magnet getting stuck to the metal breakwall, a Farms Public Safety supervisor activated the depart-


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