Workers from AAA Office in Santa Maria Evacuated after Envelope with White Powder Found
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.
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