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Workers from AAA Office in Santa Maria Evacuated after Envelope with White
Powder Found
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Beth Ward on September 08,2010 8:57am
 
THE AAA OFFICE IN SANTA MARIA WAS EVACUATED ON TUESDAY AFTER AN EMPLOYEE FOUND
AN ENVELOPE CONTAINING AN UNKNOWN WHITE POWDER. THE DISCOVERY WAS MADE AROUND
11:00 AM, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS NOTIFIED, AND THE TWO EMPLOYEES WHO WERE
EXPOSED TO THE POWDER WERE NOT INJURED. AT 3:00 PM, HAZ MAT TEAMS WENT INTO THE
BUILDING AND BATALLION CHIEF ALAN WIDLING TELLS KCOY CBS 12, THEY DETERMINED
THAT THE SUBSTANCE WAS NOT HAZARDOUS.
THE BUILDING REOPENED BY LATE AFTERNOON, BUT IT IS STILL NOT CLEAR WHAT THE
SUBSTANCE WAS. THE ENVELOPE WAS SENT TO THE AAA EMPLOYEE BY A DOCTOR, WHO SAYS
HE HAS NO IDEA WHERE THE POWDER CAME FROM.