Rescue Service Launches 'Report on Explosives' Week
If you happen to have any old grenades around the house, or decades-old, unexploded shells in the yard, this is the week to call in the experts, according to the Rescue Service.
Monday marked the start of a week-long campaign by the service's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Center, which encourages residents to give up any explosive material they might know of and offers an amnesty to those who do.
The head of the disposal center, Arno Pugonen, said in a press release that, while the number of people wounded by explosives in accidents in Estonia has declined over the last decade, the number of explosive objects that sappers deal with each year remains quite high - around 3,000. Over the last 10 years, explosives have killed 18 people and wounded another 113.
Three similar campaigns, held between 2008 and 2010, yielded over 100 kilograms of explosive material as well as over 1,000 detonators, 10,000 bullets, 1 kilometer of detonator cord and 100 liters of napalm, according to the press release.
The Rescue Service said that those who wish to report explosives should call the emergency services number, 112, and under no circumstances should they bring in the material themselves.