Florida neighborhood evacuated after possible explosives found in backyard of home

COCOA, Fla. – A Cocoa, Florida neighborhood has been evacuated after officers say attainable explosives had been discovered within the yard of a house on McLeod Drive. 

The Brevard County Sheriff’s Workplace Bomb Squad has been known as to the scene.

In response to investigators, the Cocoa Hearth Division responded to the house simply after midnight for a construction fireplace. Upon arrival, firefighters discovered a camper on the property that was engulfed. There was nobody residence on the time of the hearth.

“A short while after the hearth was extinguished, a patrol officer seen a tree caught fireplace on a property instantly north of the place the unique fireplace began. Additional investigation revealed the property at 330 Mc Leod Dr. contained explosives within the yard, a few of which had been going off all through the evening inflicting injury to the house,” the Cocoa Police Division wrote on Fb. 

A half mile space surrounding houses have been evacuated for security. Patrol officers have blocked entry to McLeod Dr. between U.S. Freeway 1 and Dixie Ct. to Bellaire Dr. on the south and Grandview Blvd. on the North. 

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