Brian McComas, an Army Corps safety specialist, said recognizing ordnance isn’t always so easy. Things can change appearances after sitting outside for decades.
And grenades, chemical weapons and other munitions have been turning up on the island’s hiking trails and beaches for decades.
“So you want to recognize, ‘Hey this might be an ordnance item, let me get out of the area,’” McComas said. “And then you call the police department, or the local authority that responds to your area,” McComas said. Rylee Lekanoff attended one of the Unalaska trainings. The 11th-grader grew up in Unalaska, and despite such a prevalence of unexploded ordnance in the area, she said she didn’t learn about proper protocol in school. Rather, it was her family who taught her.
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