Pipe Bomb Found Near Allegheny County Pipeline

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

August 15, 2012 | 11:19 AM

Allegheny County’s bomb squad was called in to detonate a pipe bomb found next to a natural gas pipeline in Buffalo Township, Allegheny County yesterday. More from the Post-Gazette:

A contractor working on a natural gas pipeline in Washington County on Monday afternoon unearthed a pipe bomb that was detonated by the Allegheny County bomb squad.
“One of our contractor’s employees found a small pipe device on a right-of-way” where a pipeline is being constructed near Rural Valley Road in Buffalo, said Sandra James, director of corporate communications for National Fuel Supply Corp.
Police characterized the device as a “live pipe bomb” that could have caused a catastrophe.
Ms. James said police later scoured the pipeline route with bomb-sniffing dogs but could find no other devices.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call state police at 724-223-5200.

StateImpact Pennsylvania has reached out to Allegheny County authorities, as well as National Fuel Supply. We’ll have more information on this later today.