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Sponsored by the Texas A & M University and Apple Computer, Inc, FORT WORTH (AP) — A federal firearms expert said Monday it will be later this week before agents re ceive test results on a pipe bomb that killed a 9-year-old boy and injured five other children. Lou Iliano, resident agent of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said laboratory tests will reveal what material was inside the device that went off Sunday night in a south Fort Worth neighborhood. The blast killed Max Herrera. His brother, sister and three neighborhood children were injured when the 6- to 8-inch-long bomb they believed was a “big fire cracker” exploded about 7:45 p.m., officials said. Injured were Rudy Herrera, 6, Irana Herrera, 4, Joel Zamora, 8, Jael Zamora, 1 1, and Mark Zamora, 7. Irana Herrera was in serious condition, and Mark Zamora was in good condition Monday at John Peter Smith Hospital, public relations director Drenda Witt said. Irana Herra suffered from a broken thigh and an open-joint fracture, hospital officials said. Jael Zamora was in good condition Monday at Fort Worth Children’s Hospital, public relations director Sally Bradford Said. Rbdy Herrera and Jael Zamora were treated and released Sunday from Harris Method ist Hospital, Ruth McFadden, unit leader of the Harris emergency room said. Iliano said authorities will not be releasing any fur ther information on the homemade device until the lab tests are finished, probably late this week. “We’ve got the whole (bomb),” he said. “There’s quite a bit of physical evidence. I was surprised at how much there was left.” Witnesses said the explosion rattled windows of nearby stores and homes and sounded like a loud gun shot or car backfire. “It was a terrible situation,” Lt. R.C. Swan of the Fort Worth Fire Department said. “It was quite an explo sion.” Iliano said investigators have interviewedwir* and some of the children involved, but it wasnoibi where the bomb came from or how the children emi “We’ve got a lot of conflicting stories, so wewi try to find the truth,” Iliano said. Fire Cant. Roy Knight said the children mavb found the bomb near a curb on West Fogg Street. David Carr, fire department district chief,sadi children were playing with the “large and volatik p bomb when it detonated between the sidewalkiil parked pickup. “We’ve heard the kids were passing it around,mi to light it with matches,” he said. "They haditintk hands. Whether they lit it or not, we don’t knot They were playing with it, hut we can’t besureai: time where it came f rom." But the dead boy’s older sister. Rosie Arredondi; told the Fori Worth Slar- Fe/egram, the bombmpt to her brother. “Some kid gave Max the bofrib,’’she said.“Maxi anti it went up.” The powerful blast spewed fragments’ak far as 1 feet, Carr said. But nearly 75 percent of the boml mained intact. Shannon I lartigan, a pediatric nurse who was ant the first on the scene, said she came from behind South Fort Worth Baptist Church and sawthechiU lying on the ground. “I saw that little boy," Hartigan said ol Max Here " I was going to help him ami I < mildni. ol ditiw cause there was nothing to do to help.” She said the five injured children had been cote at the scene. “All they kept asking was ‘Are we go! die?”’ Hartigan said. Arredonda said the Herrera children hadaccon nied their mother to a grocery store a block awai left the store to play with their friends. SALLY FIELD TOM HANKS IN PUNCH UNE STARTS FRIDAY AT A THEATRE NEAR YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL PAPER FOR SHOWTIMES. Call battalion Classified 845-2611 Navy airmen: Spare parts used on rescue helicopter HOUSTON (AP) — Two Navy airmen and a former co-worker al lege that untested parts from a wrecked craft are being used to keep a pair of rescue helicopters in opera tion at its Corpus Christi base. One of the airmen making the ac cusations, Petty Officer Bryan Sims of Houston, and a former petty offi cer who did not want to be identi fied, told the Houston Chronicle they have been punished for object ing to the practice of installing un proven parts from a wrecked Huey helicopter, whose 1985 crash killed three crewmen. The former petty officer received an honorable discharge this year. Sims, 27, is facing a court martial scheduled to start Monday. Both maintain that the accusations against them, ranging from alcohol abuse to losing gear, are false. Sims, a helicopter mechanic still assigned to the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, says gauges, hydraulic equipment and rods used to control the flight of the helicopters were switched from the wrecked heli copter to the pair now in service. The mechanic also asked not to he identified, the Chronicle said. A base spokesman said the Huey helicopters have been tested and are safe, but he would not immediately discuss how spare parts are ob tained. A spokesman at headquarters in Washington told the Chronicle the Navy does not routinely use parts from wrecked equipment. Navy spokesman Lt. Barbara Kent in Washington said any part re covered from a damaged aircraft must be properly tested and certi fied “ready-for-issue” before it is used. Orders to transfer theparis»i issued by chief petty officers,! the parts were not examined tested before being installed, three said. “I just want them to stop pit) with people’s lives,” the mecli told the newspaper, saying than helicopters could crash if the coif rods malfunction. 1 fowever, Sims and theotherJ acknowledged they have no ft that the parts have malftincw during helicopter missions ® 1986. The Hueys, the type used American fighters in the Vie® War, are used primarily to r# other airmen from trouble d** aircraft training missions front I* in Corpus Christi, Beeville 1 Kingsville. City lends hand, rebuilds hornet CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — The city has kept its promise to Vbuild houses that were destroyed hjuly when a 790,000-gallon water tryk collapsed, releasing a wall of w2,er downhill into a poor neighbor- hod. he flash flood on the morning of July22 killed three people, injured moruhan 20 and destroyed at least 13 aiqbe and wood homes. Cars, furnitre and parts of houses were washesto the bottom of the slope. The next day, Juarez Mayor Jaime Jjrmuclez visited the neigh- borhoot and promised the city would pwide medical care and re place evtything that could be re placed. • Two mqths later, the city contin ues to etet cinderblock houses where adol and wood structures existed before. Some days, Elida Mo lina is almost glad her adobe house was swept downhill. “The flood forced the city to build me a new home, which is better than what I had,” she said last week. “Our new home is going to have an indoor bathroom, a separate kitchen and a bedroom. We had only one room be fore. Things are looking bright now.” But her enthusiasm is tempered by memories of other victims. ened the tank’s foundation. Besides building the nexvlw 11 * the city has provided a doctor 1 set up a tent office in the neij^ hood, and household goods arc livered daily by the truckload. “We never expected this ki^ help,” neighborhood resident^ Santos Garcia said. “They tellte in two weeks, all the homes® rebuilt.” “Three boys that I knew were killed,” she said. “They can never be replaced.” The accident happened when a 75-foot-long wall on the concrete water tank gave way. Officials be lieve heavy rains might have weak- In the meantime, fajnilies 1 staying with relatives whileawi* the completion of their newM If they don’t feel well, theycan c Leonardo Ruiz, the city-pro" 1 doctor who provides free nic^ help and prescriptions from8 11 to 1_ p.m. five days a week.