A Dark Night in Aurora by Dr. William H. Reid

Author:Dr. William H. Reid
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2018-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

At about 11:00 a.m. the next morning, Saturday, July 21, the robot operator moves his machine slowly toward the bottle of glycerin in the tilted plastic jug. Close up, it’s apparent that just a few more degrees of tilt will spill the liquid into the skillet. Guided by views from different camera positions, he eventually nudges the jug away from the skillet, grasps its handle with the robot arm, and lifts it up, away, and out of the apartment. The first device has been disarmed.

After that, robot video shows the end of a pole camera protruding into the dining area from the broken kitchen window. It seems to be looking around, checking an area the robot can’t see, and then it leaves. Suddenly there’s an explosion in the kitchen, outside the robot’s “vision.” The freezer door from Holmes’s refrigerator flies into the dining area in a cloud of black smoke; framed posters come crashing down. Soot settles on the walls and ceiling. A Batman mask still peeks up from behind the television. The blast came from police purposely destroying a dangerous fireworks ignition transmitter without detonating the flammable materials and gunpowder still in the living room and a container of gasoline a few feet away in a kitchen cabinet.

The robot now begins to clear a path toward the kitchen through still-flammable debris and broken window glass, moving the black fireworks spheres and pulling wires and magnesium ribbon out of the jars, bottles, and a black plastic container of gunpowder. Then it backs through the apartment door into the building hallway. For the first time, the camera shows the operator, standing at the far end of the hall in firefighter gear. Another officer, in a ballistic suit and visor, arrives to take more photos.

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