Watch what it takes to become a member of the Arapahoe County Bomb Squad 02:27. Its mission is to respond to calls involving explosive devices, pipe bombs, and even suspicious packages.

Making a thousand runs a year, the bomb squad can never relax. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13, 2009— -- On a recent day the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad answered what they thought would be ...

In an interview, Richard Esposito, a journalist and co-author of “Bomb Squad,” a 2007 book about the New York unit, said many of its investigators retired after 9/11, and “a lot of fresh ...