we take them from a police officer or firefighter with no background to a position where they can successfully navigate their way through a call. bomb techs embedded with s.w.a.t. teams after the brothers used pressure cooker bombs at the boston marathon and terrorist couple used bombs to kill in san bernardino california two years later. fox news went inside the training. you have a hostage and a live device and something called a dead man switch, if the hostage takes their thumb off the red button, it detonates. removing hostage devices is the riskiest procedures because all the procedures we do are manual and hands on, have bomb techs integrated with tactical teams seems to make sense to address the threat. fox cameras stop rolling to
are going to be time frames and that just doesn t happen. bomb techs visit the memorial wall, one plaque is blank. our goal is to ensure that plaque stays empty, we don t have another name on that. 15 bomb techs have been killed on a professional note, our fox team would like to thank the fbi in huntsville for making the access possible. bret: separately we talked about it last night. there are more text messages from former fbi agent peter strzok and lisa page about leaking. other government officials were apparently leaking about the russia probe one month after the presidential election. fbi agent peter strzok told his colleague and lover lisa page i think our sisters have been leaking like mad. two former fbi agents told fox news that they believed
for highly skilled bomb techs is never been greater. there is command bombs, victim initiated bombs, all of that we have to practice and train on here because we don t know what we re going to encounter. jon stewart is director of the hazardous devices school in huntsville, alabama. there s 2900 that protect us across america and they all come here for their initial training. what does it take to be a bomb to? it takes a drive, the desire to want to help people, you have to have some mechanical skills. our team saw firsthand how bomb techs learned to handle the shock waves and operate extreme conditions and pressure. we take them to a position where they cannot successfully navigate their way through an ied call. bomb techs embedded with s.w.a.t. teams after the
the suspect dropped his rifle which was a rueger ar assault-type rifle and fled from the church. our local citizen pursued the suspect at that time. a short time later as law enforcement responded that suspect right at the wilson guadalupe county line crashed out and was found deceased in his vehicle. at this time we don t know if it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound or if he was shot by the local resident. we know he s deceased in the vehicle. the suspect has not been completely identified. we believe he s a young white male, maybe in his early 20s. he was dressed in all black, tactical type gear and was wearing a ballistic vest. the delay in getting him identified is there were multiple weapons in the vehicle and the vehicle has been processed by our texas ranger special operations group bomb
surveillance by an fbi team in florida or wherever else that address is coming back to, all known addresses. they re running a search warrant. it is probably already signed by a magistrate. fbi s.w.a.t. teams are already suiting up for a tactical industry into his known or believed residences, wherever they are in the country. if it is florida, that s where they re staging. fbi bomb techs will deploy forward to those locations because of the risk that they re bobby trammed. so this is a carefully organize straight plan going on right now. do you want to speak to that and how that matches what authorities are doing? we have some mutual friends in common. this is a well rehearsed and a well put together operation. the fbi unfortunately because of the amount of terrorism we ve had in this country, this has become a well oiled operation. so you have the operation on the ground.